On Mon, April 2, 2007 1:59 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> Anyone want to recommend some good yum sites for FC5? I get a lot of "nothing to do's" > > What is it you are trying to do?
Who knows? At any given moment I might just be confused. I downloaded an rpm on the jbidwatcher thingie and it went all "i've got dependencies" on me. I probably gave yum a bum name. > If you are running "yum update" and you > get "nothing to do" it just means there are no updates for the packages already installed on your system. > > If you have done a "yum install some-package-name" and you get a "nothing to do" it means you didn't give it a valid package name for something in your set of repositories. > > If you need to see what packages are available for installation, I suggest using yumex, which is a GUI package tool. > > For additional package repositories in order of preference, I recommend freshrpms <http://freshrpms.net>, ATrpms <http://atrpms.net> (those two cooperate) and Livna <http://rpm.livna.org>. Be careful of mixing packages from the unofficial sites because sometimes they have almost but not quite the same files/capabilities. > > Gus > Thanks for both hints and thanks to GG as well. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
