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Agent007:
Hi all,


Can someone pls tell me as tho what is the difference between .src.rpm and .rpm file? Is it the same procedure for installing both the rpm's?

Also, I went to download the nessus RPM from here:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=nessus

and some results turned up.....

Under distributions the following terms showed up which I found confusing,

Freshrpms
Red Hat Contib at Bero.Org
ASPLinux
Falsehope
Linux/PPC Contribs


What do they mean? Can these RPM's be installed on RedHat?

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Agent007:
Can someone pls tell me as tho what is the difference between .src.rpm and .rpm file? Is it the same procedure for installing both the rpm's?

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*.src.rpm is the "Source Code" distribution of the RPM. The procedure for installing is different because to install a SRC RPM it needs to be compiled/built before installing. A binary RPM (*.i386.rpm, etc) is already compiled and you just install it by using "rpm -Uvh somepackage.i386.rpm". To build/install a source RPM you must have the rpmbuild packages install along with your compiler. Then you can do a:

# rpm --rebuild somepackage.src.rpm

or

# rpmbuild --rebuild somepackage.src.rpm

depending on your version of RPM, which will build the *.i386.rpm binary. You then must do the "rpm -Uvh somepackage.i386.rpm" from the binaries that you just created to install.

 
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Also, I went to download the nessus RPM from here:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=nessus

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What version of RedHat are you running? Get the ones from freshrpms.net like I said in your other thread. They *work* and are build for RedHat.

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