Newbie Quesion on RPMs

[blues77]

Hello,

I recently downloaded the rpm for my network adapter from NVIDIA and now I need to know how to rebuild the source. I got the source RPM. I tried rpm --rebuild <rpm filename> and it just brought up a liting of all the options I can supply to RPM. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

 

[MrPtt]

Hi

What do you need?:
1.- Rebuild the rpm (utility?)
2.- Rebuild the code for your NIC, that comes in the rpm.

If second, open the rpm with sources, and build drivers for your NIC

Good luck!
;-)

 

[ericbrunson]

You probably need to install the rpmbuild rpm.

For some reason they (RH in particular) chose to split the rebuild functionality into different packages, but didn't make the corresponding changes to the manual pages.

try rpmbuild --rebuild ...

If 'command not found' then find the rpmbuild rpm and install it.