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From: gnosbush on 12 Jul 2007 20:33
I just upgraded my server from RedHat 9 to Fedora 5. I have never
used yum in the past but it appears that this is what should be used.
I need to install two things but I am having a heck of a time trying
to get yum to install them. I need httpd-devel and vnc. Can someone
suggest what the yum.conf file should look like to get these two
applications? Any help is greatly appreciated.

From: Netlurker on 13 Jul 2007 01:16
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:33:27 +0000, gnosbush wrote:

> I just upgraded my server from RedHat 9 to Fedora 5. I have never used
> yum in the past but it appears that this is what should be used. I need
> to install two things but I am having a heck of a time trying to get yum
> to install them. I need httpd-devel and vnc. Can someone suggest what
> the yum.conf file should look like to get these two applications? Any
> help is greatly appreciated.

Both of those packages should be available from the default repositories
so you shouldn't need any modification to yum. Just use "yum install
<packagename>" to install. You can also use "yum provides <filename>" to
find package names that include a particular file or "yum list <pattern>"
to list package names with optional wildcards.

One particularly useful repository that isn't included by default is
livna. You can download an rpm for it at rpm.livna.org which will update
your yum config automatically.

- Chris
From: Nico on 14 Jul 2007 12:06
On 13 Jul, 06:16, Netlurker <netwi...(a)SPAM.tekzone.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:33:27 +0000, gnosbush wrote:
> > I just upgraded my server from RedHat 9 to Fedora 5. I have never used
> > yum in the past but it appears that this is what should be used. I need
> > to install two things but I am having a heck of a time trying to get yum
> > to install them. I need httpd-devel and vnc. Can someone suggest what
> > the yum.conf file should look like to get these two applications? Any
> > help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Both of those packages should be available from the default repositories
> so you shouldn't need any modification to yum. Just use "yum install
> <packagename>" to install. You can also use "yum provides <filename>" to
> find package names that include a particular file or "yum list <pattern>"
> to list package names with optional wildcards.
>
> One particularly useful repository that isn't included by default is
> livna. You can download an rpm for it at rpm.livna.org which will update
> your yum config automatically.
>
> - Chris

Unfortunately, that package is rather hazardous. It has no version
number in the downloaded package name, and it adds a whole stack of
repositories you really, really may have to beware due to legal
issues, such as NVidia drivers for which you haven't signed an NVidia
user agreement to install.

From: Matt on 27 Jul 2007 11:54
gnosbush(a)gmail.com wrote:
> I just upgraded my server from RedHat 9 to Fedora 5.

Why would you not use Fedora 7? Is F5 supported anymore?

From: Nico on 28 Jul 2007 03:46
On 27 Jul, 16:54, Matt <themattfe...(a)xxyyyzzzz.com> wrote:
> gnosb...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > I just upgraded my server from RedHat 9 to Fedora 5.
>
> Why would you not use Fedora 7? Is F5 supported anymore?

Fedora 7 is bleeding edge, and if the box was running RedHat 9, it's
probably a few years old. I'd hesitate myself before installing Fedora
7 on anything less than 1 GHz with 512 Meg of RAM, afraid of suffering
a big performance hit.

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