Re: flexfax: Installing new RPM...

[Ask Bj�rn Hansen <ask@netcetera.dk>]

>On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:44:36 +0200, Ask Bj�rn Hansen
><ask@netcetera.dk> wrote:
>
>>At 21:00 +0200 20/10/97, Ed Weinberg wrote:
>>>I just installed the new RPM for hylafax-4.0-3.
>>
>>>I get the following message:
>>>Font Courier-Bold: /usr/lib/hyla/afm/Courier-Bold: Can not open font
>>>metrics file; using fixed widths.
>>
>>Get the .src.rpm version and change the .spec file to "--with-AFM=yes" and
>>rebuild..
>I have never changed an rpm src.  Do you mean a file called ".spec"?

Yup.

>Will the source come with instructions to rebuild, or is this
>something I can find in the rpm man page?

Check the RPM HOWTO at www.rpm.org.

Something like:

rpm -U hylafax-4.0-3.src.rpm
<youreditor> /usr/src/redhat/spec/hylafax-4.0-3.spec
edit the AFM line
rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/spec/hylafax-4.0-3.spec
rpm -U /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/hylafax-4.0-3.i386.rpm

should do it..

>What does this change do?

Compile (and/or install..) hylafax with 'AFM'.

>What is different with my RedHat instalation which requires this
>change.

Nothing I guess; I had to do the same thing. :-)


regards,

ask

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