Harol Hunter wrote: > > Is there a way of making an rpm from the source?,and I don't means an > src.rpm but a tgz or bz2 for example If the tarball has been written with this in mind, there will be a spec file inside the tarball and you could do: $ rpmbuild -ta some-file.tar.bz2 which would create source and binary RPMs from the tarball. Paul.