Re: Redhat RPMs

[Quentin Spencer]

Gregory Butler wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I recently installed RH Fedora, and tried to install Octave as well.  
> It was a bit of a challenge to find the RPMs since I installed the 
> stripped down version from a cd rather than all the packages.  When I 
> tried to install Octave I got the following message:
>  
>
> address@hidden dowloads]# rpm -i
> octave-2.1.50-9.src.rpm
> warning: octave-2.1.50-9.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> error: cannot create %sourcedir
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> address@hidden dowloads]#
>
> Has anyone had a similar problem?
>
> Greg
You are trying to install the source RPM. I'm not sure why you got that 
error if you are logged in as root, but if you install the binary RPM 
(octave-2.1.50-9.rpm) it should work for you.

-Quentin




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