Re: RH 9 chess program to Fedora

YigalB wrote:

Thank you - I found the place now... although I have been there few
times but I failed because I am not a detective, and Linux, now I know,
was made for detectives - the "download" is always hidden, and if it is
found and you are naïve enough to think "rpm -i will work the first
time...

Try yum. Search the web for it, find some good repositories. E.g. see
http://fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf

and read http://fedorafaq.org/ in general. The download will remain hidden, but the substitute for rpm -i will work the first time :)

To do what you did, I just have to do a

	yum search chess

and then

	yum install whatever_goodness_yum_search_found

It is very easy and fast, dependencies are autoresolved, it even takes care of upgrading everything if you let it (yum update).

And then you have to guess where the dependencies are("run google"), and
if you find them you have to guess which one is suitable for your
machine - and most of the data is encoded within the file name...

Try yum. Dependencies are resolved automatically. People who run the repositories take care of that for you. And you wouldn't have to search for the data encoded in the file name once you get it configured.

Sorry for the frustration, but Linux is good and lovely, but it is not
user friendly. The man is the same as unix had 20 years ago - keep the
"no examples at all" line.

And if yum seems too hard (you should give it some time, it is really simple after all), try Synaptic. It's great for the point-and-click crowd.

Oh yes - I know the term RTFM (I wrote many user guides in my life, and
god knows how many times I said:"why don’t they read"), and trust me I
try the official Linux answer ("run google").

Great!

Regards,

//Andro

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of antonio montagnani
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:06 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: RH 9 chess program to Fedora

YigalB wrote/ha scritto, On/il 21/09/2004 13:58:

Hi

Before I upgraded to Fedora I head RH9, which had a chess program

built

in. Fedora doesn't have it (or I don't know how to work it out).
Does any one know how to bring this chess game back?
Yigal

It works out of the box if you install games og Gnome and the name is
Chess!!!

[<Yigal>] so what do I have to do now in order to install them ?

In the main menu System Settings/Add-Removal of applications

and then some HOWTO readings ;-)

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