On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > I do not have answer to your queries but I would like to suggest followings Please use FedoraElectronicsLab CD and then apply following command *yum list all* This will list all the packages in EFL, now you can search on ubuntu repo (using apt-cache) to find out similar packages in ubuntu. One the list is confirmed you can send me or blog it, List will be useful for creating CollegeLevelDistro. Thanks -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
