[MPlayer-users] sorry for asking this

Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle at yahoo.fr
Sat Aug 10 20:36:01 CEST 2002


This is necessary, because rpm must have access to the /usr/src/redhat 
directory, which is for root only by design.
As you say, root privs are needed to install packages.
And that's what it does. It installs the src package, then compiles it,
and finally transform it into a binary rpm.

> > 1. Make sure you running as root.
> 
> For rebuilding? Not necessary and not recommended.
> root priviledges are only needed for installing packages.
> 


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