Fedora Users — Re: newbie: 386/686pkgs. yum list pkg name. kde 3.3 on fc2? k3b.

(This had been blocked by my email scanner.) Umm. So I thought. Now, it seems like because I was an a-hole and didn't realize that the txt file I attached was toooo long. This post is sans that txt file. Sorry.

James Mckenzie wrote:

-----Original Message-----
<From: Nat Gross <natgross.rentalsystems@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Feb 14, 2005 11:11 AM
To: fedora-list <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: newbie: 386/686pkgs. yum list pkg name. kde 3.3 on fc2? k3b.
A few newbie questions please. Hardware 2ghz cpu, 1 gig ram, 80 gig drive.
We are to assume that this is an Intel CPU, right?

Correct. Thanks for pointing out the need to point out Intel or Athlon.

1. In general, do I need xxx386xxx.rpm's or xxx686xxx.rpm's?

Pentium II, III, 4 and Pentium M use i686 rpms where available.

hmmm. Just noticed, my /etc/yum.conf, which I copied off a forum, has
many '386' strings in the urls.
Might be the wrong thing for me. I am attaching it with this post.
Please advise.

2. The list provided by 'Yum list' does not provide the full pkg name. How do I derive it from the list?
Are you talking about the following:
kernel vice kernel-2.6.10-1_760-FC3?

Am also attaching a txt file with the output of 'yum list'. The middle
column is only partial pkg name, I think.

3. On kde.org, they say that [3.3] its for FC3 only, however I am almost certain that I had it before on FC2. I had K3b on it.
Hmmm.  I remember KDE under FC2 being 3.2 and for FC3 being 3.3, but it is possible that you upgraded to KDE 3.3 through the Fedora upgrade process (or they upgraded 3.2 to be like 3.3.)

You might be correct, but I have 3.2 now, and it does not have k3b, and
I recall after a RH update, k3b magically appeared.

4. How do I use yum to get the absolute latest kde and k3b for fc2?
yum upgrade kde k3b

How about that? It's that simple? I *don't* have to specify the complete
rpm name?

5. Is there a gui front for yum, like k3b is to cdrecord?

Yes, gyum is a graphical interface for yum and includes an rhn-applet replacement that goes on the menu bar for GNOME.  I don't know (since I don't use KDE) if this functionality exists for KDE.

And I assume, that I can get gyum via yum?

Thank you all.
You are welcome.

Thanks again, hope my follow up here is not a burden.
-nat

One additional comment:  Nice post.  It was very easy to understand and reply to.

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