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Author: Craig White
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Subject: rpm problems
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?

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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