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David wrote:

> This may sound silly, but some of my friends can't work it out either.
> 
> Whenever I use rpm to install something, it never installs, for example:
> 
> [root@localhost davluong]# rpm -ivh gtk+-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
> warning: user otaylor does not exist - using root
> warning: group otaylor does not exist - using root
> warning: user otaylor does not exist - using root
> warning: group otaylor does not exist - using root
> warning: user otaylor does not exist - using root
> warning: group otaylor does not exist - using root
> warning: user otaylor does not exist - using root
> warning: group otaylor does not exist - using root
>    1:gtk+                   ###########################################
> [100%]
> [root@localhost davluong]# rpm -ql gtk+-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
> package gtk+-1.2.8-1.src.rpm is not installed
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This occurs with all rpm's..  So what I've had to do is use alien to
> convert it to slackware tgz format and manually make then make install it.
> 
> What am I doing wrong.
> Appreciate all your help.
> 
> David
> 
> PS.  If replying please remove bulk  :)
Hi,

You're installing a source RPM.  It probably ended up in /usr/src somewhere. 
Now you have to compile it, probably using the standard ./configure, make,
make install process.

That line of # marks indicates that it did install correctly, but the files
are all owned by root because there was some problem assigning ownerships
to otaylor.

AFAIK you can't query on source rpms, only installed binaries.

Paul