How to open rpm file?

[someTimeOnly]

I've downloaded "foobillard-2.9-1.src.rpm" from

http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/

of 1,114KB.

It might contain multiple files of some source code. Can anyone help me view it?

 

[John Lewis]

Yep, contains a lot of files of source code.

Linux distribution. Find a machine with linux and the RPM package and your set.

 

[AP81]

You can't open that file on a Windows machine. On a Linux machine open a terminal windows, cd into the directory and run:

rpm -Uvh foobillard-2.9-1.src.rpm




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There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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[someTimeOnly]

Who the hell are programers doing on earth, if I can't open that file on windows machine. Keeping that thing in my mind I tried my luck to download.com and searched for rpm in downloads and there were 15 search results. Very 1st result was:

"RPM Browser Beta 2
Browse RPM files from the Windows platform.
OS: Windows 95/NT
File Size: 1.23MB
License: Free"

I downloaded that and run for my rpm file and it extracted files out of that rpm file.


thanks for ur time.

 

[John Lewis]

Point wasn't that you couldn't, in particular. More a matter of you really should do so with a linux machine.

What will you do with the files now that you have them? There are cross compilers out there that you might be able to get the sources to compile with, but you would have to make significant changes to the code. That's why no one has done a Windows compile of the program you are looking at for several revisions.

 

[someTimeOnly]

>> Point wasn't that you couldn't, in particular. More a
matter of you really should do so with a linux machine.

maybe I couldn't convey my msg rightly but I said
>> Can anyone help me view it?

>> What will you do with the files now that you have them?

a... maybe the very important thing "logic"


>> There are cross compilers out there that you might be
able to get the sources to compile with, but you would
have to make significant changes to the code.
???

>> That's why no one has done a Windows compile of the
program you are looking at for several revisions.

??? There is Windows version of the program available on the same site. But there are two compile errors which I couldn't have fixed so far.

 

[John Lewis]

Do the sources seem to be in the proper places and does the synatax make sense, or are you coming up with a lot of simple syntax errors?

Source RPMs can be troublesome even on a Linux machine. If it looks like there may be some file corruption or files placed in the wrong place on the tree, you may want to download a source tarball, which will get you a .tar.gz file. You can deal with that one with PowerArchiver, available here

http://www.sfsu.edu/ftp/win/utils/

(powarc61.exe). Could be a bit more clean than the RPM source install.

 

[someTimeOnly]

First I was opening rpm file but the same site is offering some tar version of the source code. Source code for Linux and Windows Machines is available. Now I'm trying source code "foobillard-2.2-newquist.tar" for Windows machine. It contains a "foobillard.dsw" along with other files and folders. I'm using vc++ 6.0 along with GLUT set on XP-PRO.

After double clicking "foobillard.dsw" and compiling it, I've got two errors:
Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or
directory
Cannot open include file: 'png.h': No such file or
directory

bcoz ft2build.h & png.h were not in "foobillard-2.2-newquist.tar"

Now I've got those missing files from the same site from "Foobillard-1.8_src_glut.tar" and placed them on their appropriate places but with hundreds of new errors.