James Wilcox, one of the Red Carpet hackers, just emailed me to let me know that Ximian/Novell hope to officially ship Red Carpet for FC2 with the next release, but in the meantime unofficial packages are available here: http://slightly.off.net/rc-fc2 ABOUT RED CARPET ================ Red Carpet is one of the premier package management systems. It has both command line and GUI interfaces which allow one to painlessly manage software installation, upgrades, and removal, taking care of dependencies and conflicts. It allows you to add repositories in a very simple way (no more editing yum.conf!), which you may choose to subscribe to or not. For example, I am subscribed to the Fedora.us and the Livna.org channels, and so Red Carpet informs me of updates available in those channels. However, I have also added the channels (although not subscribed to them) for most of the other repositories out there, such as DAG, ATrpms, FreshRPMs, etc., and Red Carpet allows me to search for packages from any of those channels. I would highly recommend trying it out for those of you who have never used it before. I would very much like to see this included in at least Fedora Extras for FC3, although my own personal preference is for this to be added to Fedora Core. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ========================= Read the README: http://slightly.off.net/rc-fc2/rcfc2/fedora-2-i386/__README.html Then, download the following RPMs: http://slightly.off.net/rc-fc2/rcfc2/fedora-2-i386/rcd-2.2.0.91-0.vv.0.1.i386.rpm http://slightly.off.net/rc-fc2/rcfc2/fedora-2-i386/red-carpet-2.2.3-0.vv.0.1.i386.rpm http://slightly.off.net/rc-fc2/rcfc2/fedora-2-i386/rug-2.2.0.90-0.vv.0.1.i386.rpm rcd is the Red Carpet Daemon. red-carpet is the GUI client, and rug is the command line client. Install them by opening a terminal and issuing the following command in the directory to which you downloaded the RPMs: sudo rpm -Uvh rcd*.rpm red-carpet*.rpm rug*.rpm SETUP AND CONFIGURATION ======================= Installation of the rcd RPM automatically sets it to start in runlevels 2, 3, 4, and 5: sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list rcd rcd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off However, installation does not automatically start the daemon: sudo /sbin/service rcd status rcd is stopped so start it up: sudo /sbin/service rcd start Starting rcd: [ OK ] Channels can be added either via the command line: sudo rug service-add <url> or from the graphical interface: System Tools -> Red Carpet -> Edit -> Services As shipped, the rcd daemon is already subscribed to the http://slightly.off.net/rc-fc2 service which provides channels for ATrpms, DAG, Fedora Core, Fedora.us, Livna.org, etc. You may wish to add the Ximian service http://red-carpet.ximian.com/ (which will give you a Mono channel). More channels can be found at open-carpet.org -- read their instructions here (the URL below is a web page, not a Red Carpet service!): http://www.open-carpet.org/ Adding a service does not automatically subscribe you to the channels that service provides you. To subscribe, in the graphical interface either click the button on the toolbar that looks like a radar dish, or do Edit -> Channel Subscriptions. As with any tool which gives you access to multiple repositories, do NOT subscribe to all of them or YOU WILL GET CONFLICTS AND A BROKEN SYSTEM! Instead, subscribe to the Fedora Core 2 channels, the rpm.livna.org channels, and otherwise use the "Available Software" and "Search" tabs to selectively install software from other channels. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
