rpm error

[Michael Sullivan]

Are you sure that you're logged in as root?  And that it's not a
permissions issue?

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:57, joshua neff wrote:
> Newbie question here:
> 
> I'm trying to install programs using rpm. I log in as
> root and type "rpm -i" and then the package name.
> Everytime I do, I get an error message: "cannot create
> %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES"
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
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