# IBM packaging tutorial https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-rpm1/ There were some details that needed to be fixed in the original .spec file 1. `%define _topdir /home/toor/mywget` You needed to set your _topdir to your user's home directory. 2. The `make install prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr` needed to be `make install prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local` 3. `%defattr(-,root,root)` and `%attr(0444,root,root)` needed to be typed out by hand. Something happened in the copy paste I guess. 4.