Help With Yum?

gnosbush · External Since: Jul 13, 2007 Posts: 4

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.

Netlurker · External Since: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 2

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

Nico · External Since: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 29

On 13 Jul, 06:16, Netlurker <netwi....RemoveThis@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.

Matt · External Since: Aug 23, 2005 Posts: 28

gnosbush.TakeThisOut@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?

Nico · External Since: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 29

On 27 Jul, 16:54, Matt <themattfe....DeleteThis@xxyyyzzzz.com> wrote:
> gnosb....DeleteThis@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.

D.F · External Since: Jun 26, 2007 Posts: 2

"Nico" <nkadel.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1185608761.227858.98840@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> On 27 Jul, 16:54, Matt <themattfe....RemoveThis@xxyyyzzzz.com> wrote:
> > gnosb....RemoveThis@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.

Fedora 7 has similar hardware requisites than FC5; there shouldn´t be any
apreciable difereces in performance between this versions.