Hi I am using Fedora 10 linux. I have created RPM file for my software. It works fine. But it doesnot start automatically when I boot up my computer. Is there anything that I have to do during creation of RPM file or .desktop file. How my application will automatically restarts after installation. Thanks Sunil Kumar Saho...
Hi I am using Fedora 10 linux. I have created an rpm for my application. I can run my going to manubar and then application under Applications----> Others--> MyApplication. But I want my application must be located at Applications-->My Appl Folder --> MyApplication. So how can I achieve this. How to create Customized group in RPM, F...
I've installed ffmpeg using yum under Redhat, and I'm having difficulty figuring out where (what path) it installed the package to. Is there an easy way of determining this without resorting to finding it myself manually? ...
Hi, I am using fedora 10 linux. I have created an RPM for my software it works fine. But I want the follwing feature "If I install RPM it will check whether JRE 1.5 or greater is availble in that system if available then install the RPM otherwise I want to show the URL to download the JRE. Is there anything that I have to write in...
Hi, I am using Fedora 10 linux. I want to put license agreement for my spec file. Actually I have created rpm for my application. So my application gets installed perfectly without asking for license agreement. I want whenever i will install RPM then i should get license and if i agree then only installation should proceed....
Is there an easy procedure to build an RPM.If so Please explain or provide the link......... My requirement is very simple .. I have two other RPMs which should be combined into one single RPM.... Please explain the process.... Thanks in advance.......... ...
I want to write a script to find the latest version of rpm of a given package available from a mirror for eg: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/x86%5F64/RPMS/ The script should be able to run on majority of linux flavors (eg centos, redhat, ubuntu). So yum based solution is not an option. Is there any existing script that does t...
Hi I tried to build a rpm package which is giving me the following error /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/RPMS find: invalid predicate `' error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86590 (%install) what could be the reason .can any one help me in this...Thanks ...
Hi everyone! We are developing an application in python, and we are using RPM to install it. But sometimes, an error can happen during installation, and I can detect it. The question is, is there any way to cancel an installation if something is wrong? I tried to execute a "rpm -e package_name" command, but it's imposible because the sy...
Is there someone who knows how to create a RPM from netatalk 2.0.5. Or better has a URL to a RPM? I aske this because so fare I know there are no RPM's for opensuse 11.2 (or suse). Thankyou, Ivo Trompert ...
Is it possbile to add License agreement in the RPM package? When user installs the RPM, it should prompt to accept the user license agreement. ...
This seems like a simple question, but the docs don't seem to have anything to say on the subject. I would like to do something like Requires: vim or emacs but when I do that, I in fact depend on vim, or and emacs. What is the syntax for depending on one or another of two packages? ...
Moving my project from Ant to Leiningen went so smoothly that I am looking at new things to include in the build process. one of which would be to automatically create a .deb and .rpm file in the build. What is the easiest way to do this? ...
Hi, I'm trying to use some off-the-shelf PHP code in RHEL5 which requires the sqlite package (not the PDO one) but it appears this is not included in the base php5.1.6 rpm bundled with RHEL5. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, I don't have access to the installation media or RHN access (don't ask). There doesn't app...
How do I write the setup.cfg file for distutils such that setup.py bdist_rpm generates a PGP-signed RPM? I'd like to be able to offer signed packages without needing to add a second build system on top of distutils. ...
I've a C project set up in Hudson doing nighly builds, i've also an .rpm spec file used for creating rpms from these sources. Does anyone have any experience on how to build rpms out of all this using Hudson ? Right now the only solution I see is to set up a job running a script that checks svn exports the sources ,creates a tarball an...
Hi, I've never had to do this and I'm not really sure you can do it or not. But can I use RPM to distribute an already created *.bin file (a Linux self extracting binary files). My scenario is this, we use RPM to distribute all of our software. I have a piece of vendor software thats already a bin file. Say myapp.bin. I would like to us...
I know there has been a lot fuzz about this subject on various forums and newsgroups concerning the merge of Moblin and Maemo. I'd like to know what stackoverflow-fellows think about this. What are the benefits of RPM packaging over DEB that make it better choice for MeeGo? ...
What we need in our firm is a sort of release management tool for Linux/C++. Our products consist of multiple libraries and config files. Here I will list the basic features we want such system to have: Ability to track dependencies, easily increase major versions of libraries whose dependencies got their major version increased. It sh...
Hello, I have been reading about creating an RPM for Python 2.6.4. In this page: http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html it says you can create an RPM of the current Python using python setup.py bdist_rpm. The question's I have are: Do you have to type this command in your Python installation directory? Does this command, pack...