[Ilugc] It's not an rpm file | command not found while installing rpm in RHEL-5.X

[Mehul Ved]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:19 PM, guitar vasu <guitarvasu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Luggies,
> I'm unable to install an rpm file in RHEL-5.X, kindly do let me know how to
> overcome with the below difficulties.
>
> ============
> [root at DG60 tmp] # rpm -ivh yum-3.2.8-1.rpm
> bash: it's not an rpm file
> ============

Did you just rename yum-3.2.8-1.src.rpm to yum-3.2.8-1.rpm? What does
the following command return
file yum-3.2.8-1.rpm

> when i tried to install the same using rpm build command, it shows like...
>
> ===========
>  [root at DG606 tmp]# rpmbuild --rebuild yum-3.2.8-1.src.rpm
> bash: rpmbuild: command not found
> ===========

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