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trying to create a rpm to install courier-imap. It goes through the process of creating the rpm but at the very end I receive the following error message :

error: Could not open /home/blah/rpm/RPMS/i586/courier-imap-4.6.0-1.11.i586.rpm: Permission denied

Now as per instructions I am running this command without using sudo. I was able to build and install rpm's for Maildrop and courier-authlib just fine with no issues. Anyone have any suggestiosn for a solution?

This is being install on Fedora Core 11 btw.

Found solution to my issue please close. Thanks

Can you post your solution so that others can use it later on?

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Sure, what happened was that the directory was owned by root, so I had to change the owner of the folder from root to the regular user since you cannot build the rpm using the sudo command.

Change owner of the folder:


sudo chown username /home/username/path to where the rpm build will be located (/home/username/rpm/RPMS/I586) * please not this is where my directory where my output rpmbuild are, and its i586 not i386 yours could be different*

after that then go to the directory where you have the downloads in and run rpmbuild again *without using root or sudo command or it will fail*

*command to build the rpm*
rpmbuild -ta courier-imap-4.6.0.tar.bz2

If there are any other questions please let me know..

thanks for posting the solution!

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