M. Lewis wrote: >> - since you are fairly new I would recommend going with fedora extras >> and livna as your repo's >> - the other option is the rpmforge packages - 4 RPMforge repositories >> (FreshRPMS, PlanetCCRMA, Dries and DAG) >> - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - do not mix fedora-extras/livna with >> RPMforge - choose one or the other not both. >> - if you want to get help with RPMforge repo's go here >> http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ and http://freshrpms.net/ and >> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/ >> >> - now for fedora-extras/livna which is what I use >> livna.org >> - http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html >> - To start using the rpm.livna.org repository in yum simply install >> the livna-release rpm package: >> - rpm -ivh >> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm >> - don't forget to follow steps on the configuration page to install the >> gpg key >> >> fedora-extras >> - rpm.livna.org is not a standalone repository. You must use >> rpm.livna.org with Fedora Extras. In Core 4 Fedora Extras is included >> in the default configuration and works out of the box. Fedora Core 3 >> users need to add Fedora Extras manually. >> - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras >> >> Once you have fedora-extras/livna installed you will be able to >> install any package that is in the repo's, I am going to start with >> searching packages first though. > Great writeup Gerald! Thanks. I don't entirely agree, I am afraid. There are three standard fedora repositories, namely fedora, fedora-updates and fedora-extras. In my view it is unwise to introduce other repositories, particularly if yum does not appear to be working. I agree that the rest of the advice was very good. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
