Re: RPMs of Gnome

[Martin Baulig <baulig Stud Informatik Uni-Trier DE>]

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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, wes wrote:

> Is there any way to make the rpms relocatable?  I would like to put everything 
> under /usr/local with rpm --prefix /usr/local -iv <filename> but rpm replies 
> with:
> package <filename> is not relocatable
> error: cannot be installed

If it's all the same like with gnome-libs, there is a way, but you have to
compile the packages yourself. Fetch the source RPM, install it and edit
the spec file (this is gnome-libs.spec from CVS):

# Note that this is NOT a relocatable package
%define ver      0.13
%define rel      SNAP
%define prefix   /usr

Change this to whereever you want to have them installed, for instance

# Note that this is NOT a relocatable package
%define ver      0.13
%define rel      SNAP
%define prefix   /usr/local

After that, build a new binary RPM and install it:

  rpm -bb --clean gnome-libs.spec
  rpm -bi ../RPMS/<architecture>/gnome-libs....rpm

The build should work as any user, not only as root.

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