trying to install kde 3.2

Tue Dec 9 08:55:13 UTC 2003

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 03:02, Brian Connolly wrote:
> Trying to install KDE 3.2 beta.  I think I am getting an error.  The
> error is probably me.
> 
> downloaded kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm (it looked big enough to be the
> right one)
> opened the terminal in root
> 
> [root at localhost root]# rpm -ivh kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm
> error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

Because you're trying to install a Source RPM (RPM) and not a normal RPM
package. Instead,

rpmbuild --rebuild kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm

If it completes successfully, you'll be left a lot of RPM packages
sitting in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386

Ah! BTW, kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm is NOT the Source RPM package for
KDE 3.2, but for KDE 3.2 localization packages only. You'll need to get
kdebase, kdelibs and company.