I have tried RPMs from Freshmeat. If I go into Nautilus and double click the file, which is how I normally install RPMs now, nothing happens. If I go to a terminal, su, and then run rpm -ivh ...
At first glance, rebuilding an RPM may sound like a purely mechanical task: take a patch, rebuild the package, ship it. In reality, that small fix goes through a much longer journey that touches ...