> Meanwhile, I have an old crummy computer at home on which I am more or less > paralleling my efforts on, which runs Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu seems to have all > the packages I need, ready-to-go.
RHEL isn't really a desktop OS. It's catered more for servers. I have to maintain 150+ of these as desktop/server machines and have to do lots of compiling since RPMs don't exist or because it's easier to maintain a centralized installation on an NFS server. > The most recent problem packages, for which "yum" as well as self-compiling > has failed, are libraries and compiler files associated with programming AVR > > Using Ubuntu, the pre-built packages were installed using: > sudo apt-get install binutils-avr > sudo apt-get install gcc-avr > sudo apt-get install avr-libc > sudo apt-get install gdb-avr > sudo apt-get install avrdude > sudo apt-get install simulavr I found some of these at rpm.pbone.net doing a search for "avr" and making sure centos 5, rhel 5, and fedora 6 were checked, these distros are compatible with each other and so most of the RPMs can be used almost interchangeably, but I'd make sure that there's an official RHEL5 rpm before trying centos 5 or fedora 6. The regular search at rpm.pbone.net is a bit strange, searching for "avr" didn't return the avrdude package but did return most of the ones you need above, so I'd do a search for the full name of the ones that don't show up when searching for "avr", i.e. "avrdude" showed the FC6 avrdude packages. hth _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
