Is It possibel to have xawtv on Fedora 7 ?
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Jun 20 19:21:18 UTC 2007
Thomas TS wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> Thomas TS wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings...
>>>
>>> I am trying to install xawtv (http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/) on Fedora
>>> 7 with:
>>>
>>> # yum install xawtv
>>>
>>> but it seems that this package do not exist on any of the default
>>> repositories...
>>>
>>> Any hope ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Why not just compile from source?
>>
> I did the download of the sources... then:
>
> # rpm -ta xawtv-4.tar.gz
> -ta: unknown option
>
You'll need rpm-devel for the rpmbuild app, that's how you get RPMs built.
> Inside the sources there is a xawtv.spec.in but i dont know how to
> handle it ...
>
> But, i did the download of an other xawtv.spec and tried:
>
> # rpm -bb xawtv.spec
The SPEC files and tarballs need to be in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD (I think) in order to build properly. You might
get away with having it in other locations, but I like following the
normal conventions for that.
>
> -bb: unknown option
>
> As you see... i am an RPM newbie :-(
>
> Anyway, the
>
> ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
>
> do produce all the binaries... Now how to create an .i386.rpm from this ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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