arctic Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 hmm... mebbe you are right... but aren't some packages only available via apt-rpm? ( i think that i read something like that on the fedoraforums. :unsure:) or can absolutely all packages be installed with yum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 All packages can be installed with yum. It's much much faster now too. another cool feature is "yum shell". And another package in extras, "yum-utils" # rpm -ql yum-utils /usr/bin/package-cleanup /usr/bin/repo-rss /usr/bin/repoclosure /usr/bin/repomanage /usr/bin/repoquery /usr/bin/yum-builddep /usr/bin/yumdownloader /usr/share/doc/yum-utils-0.2 /usr/share/doc/yum-utils-0.2/README Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 FC4 is a great distro, but it's not without it's problems. Java doesn't work the usual way, i usually install it in /usr/java so it works well with azureus but for some reason azureus dies at the splash screen. There is also a huge lack of flac support in the repositorys which is a suprise to me since flac is open source. So although i like FC4 little things like that annoy me, so it's back to debian for me. I still say all distros suck, it's just some suck less than others. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 FC4 is a great distro, but it's not without it's problems. Java doesn't work the usual way, i usually install it in /usr/java so it works well with azureus but for some reason azureus dies at the splash screen. There is also a huge lack of flac support in the repositorys which is a suprise to me since flac is open source. So although i like FC4 little things like that annoy me, so it's back to debian for me. I still say all distros suck, it's just some suck less than others. :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ...build your own distro :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 The problem your having with Java is because Fedora is the first to include gcj it's own native java compiler instead of using sun's java. Of course for now there are going to be problems getting compatibility and patches for programs that were written with Sun in mind. One of the Fedora Devel's (andrew greeen i think) is working on patches for azaurus. You can still use jpackage and grab there nosrc rpm for sun and grab sun's bin file and build that and install it. Doing it this way allows you to have both installed. And in case you're unfamiliar with JPackage, that's easy to do; a quick paraphrase of http://jpackage.org/rebuilding.php: 1. Download and install the nosrc rpm http://jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=2546 2. Put the Sun package in your rpmbuild/SOURCES 3. rpmbuild -ba rpmbuild/SPECS/java....spec 4. enjoy your RPMs in rpmbuild/RPMS/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 Oh, to have a build tree for your user just do this su - yum install fedora-rpmdevtools exit back to your user and run /usr/bin/fedora-buildrpmtree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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