can't install rpm files

[cubby]

please help me, I can't install rpm files

[Pegasus]

- open terminal
- become root ( su - )
- install rpms by using "rpm -Uvh <name_of_rpm_file>"

[ucfagls]

You're not going to get much help unless you tell everyone what you did (i.e. the commands you typed into the shell, or the application you used to try to install) and what error messages you got when you tried to install the rpms.

For starters, you need to install rpms as root so try this from the directory where your rpm is located: Open a terminal and type:

su -c "rpm -ivh name_of_rpm.rpm"

Enter root's password and see what happens. The flags -ivh means install (i), verify (v) and display progress hashes (h). Does that work?

[bob]

Here's some basics on RPM's http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-intro-...t-started.html

However, ucfagls is right - we'll need more info to really work with you on a specific problem. Also, have you checked yum or apt to see if your program is available? If so, you'd be better off installing it that way.

[cubby]

I tryinginstall id3lib-3.8.3-alt2.src.rpm but kernelsays:

[root@root root]# rpm -i id3lib-3.8.3-alt2.src.rpm
warning: id3lib-3.8.3-alt2.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 38e7bb46

[ucfagls]

That error means you don't have the GPG public key for the repository (where you got your package) installed on your system. You need the public key to make sure that the package you are installing is what the person distributing the package wanted you to install and that it comes from the right person.

Depending upon which repository you got your rpm from the Unofficial Fedora FAQ has an entry for this error message and instructions on how to import the relevant keys for various repositories.

Also, note that what you are trying to install is the source rpm (src.rpm), not a binary rpm. Unless you want to compile the package from source you really don't need the src.rpm version and should get one that has just .rpm in its name.

Finally, if you got that src.rpm from one of the repositories listed in the Unofficial Fedora FAQ then you really are better off using YUM to install the package on your system. See other entries in that FAQ, which explain how this is done.

[jowah]

The error message you are getting is rpm saying it can't validate the RPM package against any known (to your machine) public keys for that package. If you tell us where you found that RPM package we might be able to figure out how to import the proper public key for whatever repository that RPM came from.

Once that is solved, another question beckons... did you mean to install the source RPM, perhaps in order to recompile it or do you just want to find a normal, binary package and just have it installed? If you meant to do the latter, you might want to set up Yum to access the Fedora Extras repository and let it install it for you:

1 - create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ called "fedora-extras.repo":

# gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo

2 - cut & paste this text into it:

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
  http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
  http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
  http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

3 - save it and exit gedit

4 - import the Fedora Extras key into rpm:

rpm --import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras

5 - now, let yum install the id3lib package for you:

yum -y install id3lib

At the time of my writing this, Fedora Extras has id3lib version 3.8.3-9 which might work out just fine for you. (I found that using "yum search i3dlib")

Now, if all you really wanted from the beginning was to recompile the 3.8.3-alt2 source RPM, please forgive my babbling :-)