Hi people, I have a question related to package installation. I found a Fedora Spin named Fedora Electronic Lab which had a lot of packages related to electronics pre-installed. I would like to use it, but I am already using Ubuntu and I think installing a new distro will involve some changes in the disk partitioning, which I don't want to get into as far as possible.
I thought of an alternative, that is, installing the Fedora package manager (yum) in Ubuntu and then getting all the electronics packages through yum using a Fedora repository. I have already installed yum, but I am not sure that installing packages through it is a good idea, since apt and yum might get into some inexplicable conflict with each other. So, if there's anyone who has successfully used yum in Ubuntu, can you tell me how to set up the software sources (something analogous to /etc/apt/sources.list in Ubuntu)? Or if it turns out that using yum is not viable, can someone suggest a solution for my problem? Thanks, Mihir. -- Mihir Mehta, B. Tech. student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
