Fedora RPM

First, set a you build enviroment ( never, never, never build a rpm package how root ):

# mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}

Now, create your macro definition for your build path:

# echo "%_topdir /home/`echo $USER`/rpmbuild" > ~/.rpmmacros

For rebuild your own rpm for fedora, download the last version to src.rpm package from:

Also you must have installed the unac package ( also know how libunac ) package, download and install:

# rpm -ivh http://richzendy.org/repo/kiwix/unac-1.7.0-1.i386.rpm

now try this:

# rpmbuild --rebuild kiwix-1.9.svn_09122009-1.src.rpm

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