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






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