We research the compressible Euler equations with vacuum for nonisentropic, polytropic, ideal fluid flows. We use the new method to realize the symmetric hyper-bolic systems and then get the local existence of the solution. Moreover, by using the method given in [9], we also present two results on the formation of finite time singu-larities of the solutions in two and three space dimensions. The initial data is assumed to be radially symmetric and smooth with vacuum, but not required to have a compact support. |