From the course: Building, Maintaining, and Distributing RPM Packages

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Build a binary package to distribute executables

Build a binary package to distribute executables

From the course: Building, Maintaining, and Distributing RPM Packages

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Build a binary package to distribute executables

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- [Instructor] Now we need to put the files in place in the RPM build directory. First, we'll package up the source files and other files into a tarball, and move that to sources. (keyboard clicking) Then I look up the spec file to specs. (keyboard clicking) And as with building the previous package, I'll use RPM build - bb - vv and provide my spec file. And let's go. I can see the progress of the software being compiled and the package being built. And when that's done, (keyboard clicking) I can see I have a new package here inside my RPM's directory under my architecture. The program we want to install is called Landon app. (keyboard clicking) So I'll run that and nope, it's not installed. Let's install it from the new RPM. (keyboard clicking) And there it is. Looks like this package works.

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