instead of rpm -i try rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm
once that finishes, go to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 and you should now have a
binary rpm that you can install.

Craig White wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 18:26, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > I'm trying to install libiodbc on a RedHat 8.0 box, when I type
> > rpm -i libiodbc-3.0.6-2.src.rpm
> > I don't get an error message however when I then type
> > rpm -q libiodbc
> > it tells me that its not installed. Anyone have any idea what's going on?
> ----
> it's src...source code
> 
> now that you've installed it, you need to build it into binary and then
> install the binary
> 
> man rpmbuild
> 
> craig
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