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Installing ELF shared libraries



Hello everyone,

I'm busy tring to make a few programs work on my Linux system (RedHar 3.0.3).
(I'm trying to compile some berkeley CAE tools such as ptolemy, sis, octtools,
vl2mv if anyone cares).
I'm trying to use RPM to access the source code RPM's from the CD, but for
some reason, it doesn't work. I can access any binary RPM package on the CD
(or ones already installed), but when I try accessing anything in the SRPMS
directory, I get strange behaviour from RPM.
Sometimes when I query a package, I get the response (null)-(null)-(null),
insteadof a package name and the version number.
Trying to use rpm -q -p <file>.src.rpm -i produces information with lots of
(null) parameters and the like.

anyone have seen this before? The RPM HOWTO says nothing special about source
code RPM files.

thanks,
Udi