Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-06-02 Thread Mark Stodola
scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 On 06/02/2015 11:01 AM, Tini wrote: can you make a repo install the version that you want, instead of the latest version? i want this: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine/ (ver. 0.8

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-06-02 Thread Paul Robert Marino
@fnal.gov scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 On 06/02/2015 11:01 AM, Tini wrote: can you make a repo install the version that you want, instead of the latest version? i want this: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-06-02 Thread Tini
can you make a repo install the version that you want, instead of the latest version? i want this: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine/ (ver. 0.8) but instead i keep getting version 1.0 -Tini

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-06-02 Thread Mark Stodola
On 06/02/2015 11:01 AM, Tini wrote: can you make a repo install the version that you want, instead of the latest version? i want this: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine/ (ver. 0.8) but instead i keep getting version 1.0 -Tini If you look carefully at that repo, you will notice that 0.8 is

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-06-02 Thread trin
' (i'm about ready to give up) --- Original Message --- From: Mark Stodola stod...@pelletron.com To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 On 06/02/2015 11:01 AM, Tini wrote: can you make

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-06-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On 05/30/2015 06:26 PM, Tini wrote: i want to get 'mplayer' and the 'smplayer' front end but they are not in EPEL. so i'll either have to find a repo that has them or i will have to get them from an outside source. The Nux Dextop repo has them. See li.nux.ro for details.

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-31 Thread Charles Lane
A couple of resources that can help track down packages that aren't part of your standard distribution: rpm.pbone.net and rpmfind.net. There's a certain amount of interoperability between SL RHEL Fedora and Centos (plus some others that are less popular), so you don't have to stick 100% with

RE: Calender apps (was :how to add packages that are not in the repo?)

2015-05-31 Thread Fait, James F.
Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? is there a good reminder app in the repo? i need something that can give daily, monthly, or weekly popups telling me to do something. for example, on a certain date in the future call somebody about something. i tried a program called

Re: Calender apps (was :how to add packages that are not in the repo?)

2015-05-31 Thread Tini
i found 'kalarm' in the repo, it's under 'kdepim' thnx! --- Original Message --- From: Fait, James F. f...@anl.gov To: Tini t...@telekon.org, scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: RE: Calender apps (was :how to add packages that are not in the repo?) Date: Sun

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-31 Thread Steven J. Yellin
If the rpm name ends with x86_64.rpm, it's for 64 bit. So far as I know, everything else, such as i386.rpm, i586.rpm, i686.rpm, are for 32 bit. Steven Yellin On Sat, 30 May 2015, Tini wrote: i want to get 'mplayer' and the 'smplayer' front end but they are not in EPEL. so i'll either

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-30 Thread trin
i'm having some luck getting the repos to work, but the code below returns errors: su -c 'yum -y install rpmfusion-release' DOES NOT WORK!

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-30 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
There are fascinating legal reasons that repositories like 'rpmfusion' might not be in the Scientific Linux defaults, and certainly reasons why it's not enabled in the upstream RHEL defaults. Checking the public web pages about rpmfusin, the RPM are listed at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-30 Thread Tini
i want to get 'mplayer' and the 'smplayer' front end but they are not in EPEL. so i'll either have to find a repo that has them or i will have to get them from an outside source. it's in pkgs.org, does anyone know which one of these versions is 32-bit? http://pkgs.org/download/mplayer i am

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-30 Thread trin
Thanx! :-D - Original message - From: Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com To: t...@telekon.org Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 21:22:58 -0400 There are fascinating legal

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-30 Thread David Sommerseth
On 30 May 2015 02:00:46 CEST, Tini t...@telekon.org wrote: i forgot to ask, how do i get around the 'file dependency' problem? should i just add all of the libraries? :-D As others have suggested, using 'yum localinstall' is the preferred approach, for two reasons. First of all that the

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-30 Thread Tini
-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 On 05/29/2015 05:21 PM, Tini wrote: is there a good reminder app in the repo? i need something that can give daily, monthly, or weekly popups telling me to do something. for example, on a certain

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-30 Thread Tini
thnx! i will do that. just to save time and trouble, which repo has kde? - tini --- Original Message --- From: Ben Waugh b.wa...@ucl.ac.uk To: Tini t...@telekon.org, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
i forgot to ask, how do i get around the 'file dependency' problem? Using yum instead of rpm _may_ resolve the dependencies, if the required packages are part of existing repos. If that doesn't work, you can try searching pbone.net for packages that may resolve the issues. -

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 05/29/2015 02:31 PM, t...@telekon.org wrote: how can i add packages that aren't in the repo? Hi Trin, Go to pbone.net, find the package (rpm) you want to install. Download the package. switch to root and install the package rpm -ivh package.rpm If you can't find the package for SL

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread Tini
i forgot to ask, how do i get around the 'file dependency' problem? should i just add all of the libraries? :-D --- Original Message --- From: ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com To: t...@telekon.org, SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread Tini
...@zoho.com To: t...@telekon.org, SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 On 05/29/2015 02:31 PM, t...@telekon.org wrote: how can i add packages that aren't in the repo? Hi Trin, Go to pbone.net, find the package (rpm) you want

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread prmarino1
, 2015 20:00 To: ToddAndMargo; SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? i forgot to ask, how do i get around the 'file dependency' problem? should i just add all of the libraries? :-D --- Original Message --- From: ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread ToddAndMargo
tried a program called 'calendar' but it didn't seem to install correctly. Tini --- Original Message --- From: prmari...@gmail.com To: Tini t...@telekon.org, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com, SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Fri, 29

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread Tini
--- Original Message --- From: prmari...@gmail.com To: Tini t...@telekon.org, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com, SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 19:59:16 -0400 You can also do yum install /path/to.rpm If you use

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread ToddAndMargo
' but it didn't seem to install correctly. Tini --- Original Message --- From: prmari...@gmail.com To: Tini t...@telekon.org, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com, SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo? Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 19:59:16 -0400 You can also do yum

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 05/29/2015 05:08 PM, Bluejay Adametz wrote: try searching pbone.net On the bottom the packages download page, it will tell you what they are. yum install package will try its best to resolve them for you, as Bluejay stated -- ~~ Computers are like air

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 05/29/2015 05:44 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 05/29/2015 05:08 PM, Bluejay Adametz wrote: try searching pbone.net On the bottom the packages download page, it will tell you what they are. yum install package will try its best to resolve them for you, as Bluejay stated If you have

how to add packages that are not in the repo?

2015-05-29 Thread trin
how can i add packages that aren't in the repo?