On Sunday 17 December 2006 19:54, Thomas Cameron wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I'm trying to find two packages Plptools and Kpsion which will allow me > > to connect my Psion S5 to my FC5 box. I have these repositories enabled > > in in yum: core, extras, legacy, update, livna and livna updates. Doing a > > search amongst those repositories does not find either of the packages. > > If I do a search on rpmfind I get a choice of, other, suse,altlinux and > > rh7. Which one would be the best / easiest to install on my fc5 box, or > > does any one know where I can find fc5 specific versions of these files. > > Is there any more repositories that I'm missing? > > Why not grab the source at > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8797 and build a > new RPM for it? > > Actually, I just looked and there is a spec file in the tarball. You > should be able to build your own RPM issuing the command: > > rpmbuild -ba plptools.spec > > Once you've set up your rpmbuild directory structure, of course. See > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines for some good info > about building packages. > > Thomas I have dl the source and compiled plptools. will have a go later at turning it into an rpm. Just would just like to find Kpsion a nifty front end for it -- registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up !
