I execute echo $_topdir ,printing nothing

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From you last 2 posts I can see that your attempting to follow my installation documentation.

If you are unfamiliar with compiling from source then skip this step and use the premade RPM's avalible from http://www.thatfleminggent.com

As you the problem,

All that command is doing is writing "%_topdir ~/rpm" to the file .rpmmacros which should be located in your ~/rpm directory.

i.e. my home dir is called laurence, so it should write to /home/laurence/rpm/.rpmmacros

I will check the installation documentation just to make sure that there isn't a mistake.

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