At first I followed the simple instructions from lab:

Move the tarball to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/:

mv ed-1.6.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/

Create an empty skeleton spec file:

rpmdev-newspec ed-1.6

Then I edited the spec file using vi:

vi ed-1.6.spec

After filling in all the required sections of the spec file I attempted to build the package by running:

rpmbuild -ba ed-1.6.spec

I got the following errors:

error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/share/info/dir
   /usr/share/info/ed.info.gz

RPM build errors:
    Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/share/info/dir
   /usr/share/info/ed.info.gz

I proceeded to browse on google for a solution and it didn’t take long before I came across a solution.

To fix this error I needed to specify the list of files that would be installed.

I added this to the %files section of the spec file:

%files
%doc README
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_bindir}/*
%{_mandir}/man1/*
/usr/share/info/

And finally! I got it to work.

Run te rmplint command to check the spec file RPM and SRPM for Errors or warnings:

[root@mbustosroman SPECS]# rpmlint ed-1.6.spec
ed-1.6.spec:21: W: configure-without-libdir-spec
ed-1.6.spec:23: W: macro-in-comment %configure
ed-1.6.spec:7: W: mixed-use-of-spaces-and-tabs (spaces: line 1, tab: line 7)
0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings.

[root@mbustosroman SRPMS]# rpmlint ed-1.6-1.src.rpm
ed.src: I: enchant-dictionary-not-found en_US
ed.src: W: summary-not-capitalized C text-editor
ed.src: E: no-changelogname-tag
ed.src: W: invalid-license GNU
ed.src: E: invalid-spec-name
ed.src:21: W: configure-without-libdir-spec
ed.src:23: W: macro-in-comment %configure
ed.src:7: W: mixed-use-of-spaces-and-tabs (spaces: line 1, tab: line 7)
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 5 warnings.

[root@mbustosroman x86_64]# rpmlint ed-debuginfo-1.6-1.x86_64.rpm
ed-debuginfo.x86_64: I: enchant-dictionary-not-found en_US
ed-debuginfo.x86_64: E: no-changelogname-tag
ed-debuginfo.x86_64: W: invalid-license GNU
ed-debuginfo.x86_64: E: debuginfo-without-sources
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 1 warnings.

Even though I got the the rpm to build there are still some errors I have to fix. I found it extremely useful the rpmlint command tells you exactly what the error is, it is very straight forward. I think I’ve got a pretty good idea on how to fix the errors and will post one I am done. It is somehow 2am now! Will update this tomorrow.

Download and Extract

To Download the program go to the following link:

Download http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/ and click on one of the latest modified tar balls.

Extract the file with the following command:

tar xzvf gzip-1.4.tar.gz

Move into the newly created directory ed-1.6:

cd gzip-1.4/

Now you need to find a script that runs the build of the program, more often then not it will be this:

./configure

When successful, run:
make

followed by :
make install

To check the time it took the command to execute we type:

time make

real    0m2.213s
user    0m0.316s
sys    0m0.955s

If done correctly the software should have now been succesfully installed and ready to run.

Here is a quick example that might be useful…

Use the command gzip followed by the file(s) name to compress. Notice the decrease in size of the file after compression.

To decompress just use gunzip instead. Go to the gzip man page for more information on additional options.

Download and Extract

To download the program go to the following link:

Download http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ed/ and click on one of the latest modified tar balls.

Extract the file with the following command:

tar xzvf ed-1.6.tar.gz

Move into the newly created directory ed-1.6:

cd ed-1.6/

Now you need to find a script that runs the build of the program, more often then not it will be this:

./configure

When successful, run:
make

followed by :
make install

To check the time it took to execute we use:

time make

real    0m4.223s
user    0m3.422s
sys    0m0.523s

If done correctly the software should have now been succesfully installed and ready to run. Go to the ed man page for more information on how to use!

My name is Maria Bustos-Roman and I am currently enrolled at Seneca College in the CTY program. This blog will be dedicated to my SBR600 class. Some of my hobbies are to play the guitar, travel, and music.

I have just recently learned about the Rapberry Pi project. Raspberri Pi is a credit card sized computer that is capable of doing much of the things a desktop computer does. One of their intents is to get young people more interested in computers which I believe is a great idea. Also it only runs linux which will hopefully make young people more aware of the linux operating systems. Also the price being $25 for Model A and $35 for Model B makes it accessible and affordable. I feel that its price and funcitonality overrides its limitations.

After reading about IRC a little bit more I decided to install and run HydraIRC. Here is an image of my very first conversation!:)

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