小波 顾 wrote:

Now I am trying to install MonetDB5 on a Fedora 6 virtual machine, the source rpm I am using is MonetDB5-server-5.8.2-1.src.rpm, The following error messages was thrown when I enter rpm -i MonetDB5-server-5.8.2-1.src.rpm as root:

[root@host01 monetdb5]# rpm -i MonetDB5-server-5.8.2-1.src.rpm warning: MonetDB5-server-5.8.2-1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 0583366f warning: user sjoerd does not exist - using root warning: group sjoerd does not exist - using root warning: user sjoerd does not exist - using root warning: group sjoerd does not exist - using root

These warnings can be ignored.

Is there a step by step installation guide?

Not for this. What I do is basically, install (using yum or rpm) the packages that are needed to build the next (so for MonetDB5, that would be MonetDB, MonetDB-client and various MonetDB-client subpackages), and then use rpmbuild -bb <specfile> (I don't remember whether rpmbuild was the right command in Fedora 6. It is in Fedora 8 and later.) This last step will tell you which packages you need in order to build if they aren't installed, and else it will build a new binary rpm. You need to build in the order MonetDB, MonetDB-client, MonetDB5-server. -- Sjoerd Mullender