Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Not to start a repo flame war,
nice try.
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Paul Johnson wrote:
Today I installed the newest Centos I could find and encountered the
old software problem. I couldn't find any third party repositories
that have TexLive to replace tetex. Ii tried the Fedora version, but
it calls for a different libpoppler. LyX in Centos is aged as
drew einhorn wrote:
Dumb question.
Can't we identify the source of the package by looking at the signature.
Signature, vendor, etc... right. Pretty much why epel (so far) didn't see
the need/value in the complexity/overhead of introducing repotags.
That said, my personal opinion is/was
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
It's quite a stetch from no repotags to
conclude EPEL has no interest in compatibility.
In fact, epel (and fedora) repo is, by design and policy, supposed to be
compatible and considerate of other repos, e.g. most notably,
http://fedoraproject.org
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On 9/9/07, Timothy Kesten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've tried to install kaffeine on CentOS 5 but I get following error
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-mplayer2.desktop from install of
kaffeine-0.7.1-1.2.el5.rf conflicts with
Craig White wrote:
Anyway, KDM is display manager and I am only getting grey screen with X
...
# tail -n 3 /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess
# The following line was added by ltspcfg
#
*# Allow remote connects
how do I enable non local logins?
That's the right setting, but you
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 06:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
That's the right setting, but you (sometimes) need to completely restart
X (or maybe only kdm?) for any changes in Xaccess to take effect.
I wasn't sure how to restart kdm so I did a yum update and rebooted
mark pryor wrote:
I'm going to try this question again. The first time I botched it and the
answers I got were useless.
I want to use rpmdevtools to help with some packaging chores. There is no
C5 version that I can find.
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Guys,
Rex Dieter wrote:
I want to use rpmdevtools to help with some packaging chores. There is
no C5 version that I can find.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/rpmdevtools-5.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm
Is it worth talking to the pkg maintainers at Fedora
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I'm able to get ./configure to get past the Qt error but now it complains
that kdelibs isn't installed, or the version of qt doesn't match kdelibs.
## Builddeps
$ yum install kdelibs-devel
## to define QTDIR,QTINC,QTLIB:
$ source /etc/profile.d/qt.sh
## go!
$ ./configure
kevin kempter wrote:
HI LIst;
What version of KDE is included in the latest version of CentOS ?
Also, is there a way to get KDE4 in CentOS ?
It's possible, but no one has yet done the work to build/package kde4 for
CentOS (would require upgrading some core components, one of which...
Gopinath Achari wrote:
I need Koffice-kivio package for centos 5.2 (i386)
I downloaded this package from kde.org site. when i installed. It
generated lots of dependency errors even though the dependency packages
are installed
please Help me out . I need kivio ( Equivalent
Lanny Marcus wrote:
OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into
warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or
RedHat.com please tell me.
redhat probably. We saw similar issue(s) in fedora awhile back, and patched
k3b to auto-demount media
Mr.Vandeley wrote:
I have an error while try to install twinkle:
# yum install twinkle
[...]
Resolving Dependencies
-- Running transaction check
--- Package twinkle.i386 0:1.2-1.el5.rf set to be updated
-- Processing Dependency: libresolv.so.2(GLIBC_PRIVATE) for package:
Any idea what is
Paul Johnson wrote:
I installed Centos on some machines that need long term support. I'm
running up against some simple user convenience issues.
How to play MP3?
I've been really puzzled today that the addon rpm sites like livna,
rpmforge, rpmfusion, epel, don't seem to have something
drew einhorn wrote:
epel is not concerned about their
compatability with other 3rd party repos.
Please, stop the FUD.
And there is
a lot of lingering animosity. Just mentioning epel in some
places is enough to evoke a bitter response.
and thank you so much for perpetuating the problem.
John Doe wrote:
From: Steve Huff sh...@vecna.org
What am I missing?
[sh...@srdce ~]$ yum provides /usr/bin/gpg-agent
gnupg2.i386 : Utility for secure communication and data storage
I have Base and rpmforge repo and No Matches found...
Which repo provides this package? Fedora?
EPEL
Stuart Jansen wrote:
I recently upgraded an internal build server from C5.2 to C5.3 and now
I'm experiencing problems initializing the mock buildroot. Specifically,
I'm getting the following error:
--
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line
Rex Dieter wrote:
Stuart Jansen wrote:
I recently upgraded an internal build server from C5.2 to C5.3 and now
I'm experiencing problems initializing the mock buildroot. Specifically,
I'm getting the following error:
--
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found
/var/tmp
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rex Dieter
rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote:
interestingly, I can no longer reproduce this failure myself on a
recently upgraded centos-5.3 box using mock-0.9.14 (from epel).
So, we can use mock-0.9.14 from EPEL on CentOS 5.3 (with the current
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Rex Dieter
rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
So, we can use mock-0.9.14 from EPEL on CentOS 5.3 (with the current
CentOS yum) without any issue?
of course. (what would make you think otherwise?)
Well, I heard from one
Rex Dieter wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 7: rm: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 22: install: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 25: install: command not found
error: %post(pam-0.99.6.2-4
Paul Johnson wrote:
In Centos 5.3, a bad problem has surfaced in user land. We want to use
either Evince or Adobe acroread as the pdf view, but the update of
kdegraphics has somehow screwed up these systems so that the odious,
horrible, awful pdf viewer kghostview is used.
It's most likely
Les Mikesell wrote:
If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally
did not replace stock components with newer versions.
Les Mikesell wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally
did not replace
Les Mikesell wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally
did not replace
Rex Dieter wrote:
OK, found it, I'll go knock some skulls @ epel.
Bug filed,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504189
folks poked, hopefully will see a resolution soonish.
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Gary Greene wrote:
On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, Timothy Murphy
But I have worked out that the cause of the problem
is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, uidvalidity,
which is listed among the folders on the kmail page
but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server.
Deleting
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
But I have worked out that the cause of the problem
is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, uidvalidity,
which is listed among the folders on the kmail page
but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server.
Deleting the folder
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:41:07 Kevin Kofler wrote:
I know what distribution packagers do, I am a Fedora KDE packager. And we
ask users to report their bugs upstream unless there is evidence that
they're specific to Fedora. The vast majority of bugs which are reported
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
The moral of my story is to prevent issues languishing downstream
indefinitely, to avoid the kind of comment this bug has been around
forever, why is it still a problem and not fixed?, which does no one any
good, esp when upstreams aren't made aware
Les Mikesell wrote:
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
OTOH, Dag is in a funny position: he's the main maintainer of RPMforge,
which has 2 main issues:
(1) It's broken, at least partially. Try install audacious for one.
(2) It's incompatible with EPEL. Try install MPlayer and VLC with EPEL
Dag Wieers wrote:
Now, I always thought that RPMforge wouldn't have the resources to
start making the repositories compatible, but apparently the Fedora
projecy is simply not even interested in doing this.
Dag, we had a lengthy thread on the rpmforge list not long ago to debunk
this, and I
Dag Wieers wrote:
I don't see any effort from the Fedora side to do anything about this.
True, no one goes out of their way to proactively test things, but that same
argument goes both ways.
What I'm more interested in is concrete examples of problems not being
addressed. Are there any?
Martin Jungowski wrote:
I'm evaluating CentOS 5.4 for our company and one of our requirements is
that it must also run on laptops. I've managed to get everything working
so far except for wireless networks. The problem here seems to be that
CentOS fails to provide a knetworkmanager package,
Dieter Best wrote:
I need a newer version of gcc (gcc 4.4.3), with yum install I got
4.1.2. Has anyone figured out how to configure for the gcc 4.4.3 build
to go through?
yum install gcc44
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MGW-Discussions wrote:
What repo do I need to install to be able to install ktorrent?
EPEL has it too (maintained by me).
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Jim Perrin wrote:
On Dec 4, 2007 1:12 PM, Florin Andrei
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a
question:
Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other
words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will I be able to
R P Herrold wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
Huh? In fact, work is underway to codify the opposite:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RepositoryCollaboration
James 2:14-26
If you can identify particular cases where collaboration, as outlined in the
above
R P Herrold wrote:
Rex Dieter replied:
If you can identify particular cases where collaboration, as
outlined in the above policy draft, was not followed, I will
personally break out a can of whoop-ass, and work to fix
things.
Remember too, collaboration is a two-way street.
I never got
Les Mikesell wrote:
How does a user identify packages that have come from this repository in
order to fix or control any incompatibilities?
rpm -qi name_of_package
Look for Vendor and/or Packager tag.
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Les Mikesell wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
How does a user identify packages that have come from this repository in
order to fix or control any incompatibilities?
rpm -qi name_of_package
Look for Vendor and/or Packager tag.
Is there some reason to expect a vendor
Les Mikesell wrote:
I don't see why
a particular package couldn't be served from more than one repository.
Is there some rule about that?
Nope. As a matter of fact, this sort of thing is likely when mixing repos,
and is why a commitment to collaboration is essential.
-- Rex
Dag Wieers wrote:
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
This is a problem space that sure could use some love and attention, with
better solutions and tools. No doubt about it. And before anyone
suggests
it, repotags are not the end-all-be-all solution here, imo. We
can/should be able
Anne Wilson wrote:
The only obstacle now to running this box as the mail server is that I do
read
and send mail on it occasionally, while working on something. I need
gpg-agent, but can't find how to get it. Is it merged into another
package, or do I simply have to look at other
Anne Wilson wrote:
As to starting and stopping gpg-agent, please advise the best method to
use.
Here's what we use in fedora (and kde-redhat packaging):
Grab gpg-agent-* scripts from:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/kde-settings/
Put into either
(global): /etc/kde/env ,
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:17 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
Before using CentOS, I've spent a few years with Slackware. This
distribution doesn't come with many packages, so I had the habit of
building a lot of stuff myself. One of the first things I installed was
John Horne wrote:
I find it very odd, to say the least, that if I tell CentOS/RHEL 6 to
install KDE and not Gnome, it goes ahead and uses GDM rather than KDM.
That's a bug that was fixed in fedora at some point, probably after rhel6
branched development
-- rex
Max Pyziur wrote:
The alpine mail rpm indicates that it comes packaged with configuration
files (/etc/pine*conf*). However, they aren't there. Possible?
It's a packaging trick, those files are marked
%ghost %config
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Does anyone know how to make gwenview *not* try to use nepomuk? I liked it
under 5.x, but in 6.x it *constantly* complains about things like tagging
is not enabled... but won't open, when I log in, with gwenview running and
showing the same picture I'd logged out on.
Rock wrote:
Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?
I like knode (in kdepim rpm)
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Toralf Lund wrote:
Or is the thinking that the
suffixed (-qt4) version of commands will always be used?
That is one relatively safe approach.
Another (non-exclusive) one is to always manually prepend the output from:
rpm --eval %{_qt4_bindir}
to your $PATH.
-- rex
oglop wrote:
Hi All,
i'm a happy 6.4 user, but got some problems running pyqt4 on it.
i installed all pyqt4 packages.
but when i run from PyQt4.QtCore import *, i got the following
error message
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
What I can't find is how to
edit the start menu for leave: that's *down* below what the regular menu
Leave isnt part of the applications menu, so you cannot edit it.
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Leave isnt part of the applications menu, so you cannot edit it.
Then what *is* it part of? How did the KDE menu updater screw this
pooch?
It's simply a hard-coded (via code) part of the application launcher.
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
What I can't find is how to
edit the start menu for leave: that's *down* below what the regular
menu
Leave isnt part of the applications menu, so you cannot edit it.
Then what *is* it part of? How did the KDE menu
mark wrote:
I guess you missed the beginning of this thread: I wanted to add gqview to
the menu, so I ran the KDE menu updater... and it broke leave - clicking
leave give me the submenu, bot lock screen does *nothing* at all. I'm
trying to restore it, rather than having to type my alias for
Gabor Boros wrote:
I want to install minimal KDE on minimal CentOS 7 installation.
How can I do this?
Depends on your definition of minimal, but you can start with:
$ yum install kde-workspace
and work your way up to:
$ yum install @kde-desktop
Devin Reade wrote:
Just a heads up, if anyone is doing QT development with the EPEL
RPMs, the update from RHEL 6.5 to 6.6 breaks the current qt5 RPMS.
In fact, I had to uninstall qt5 to perform the update.
I've submitted a bug report upstream, so hopefully it'll get resolved
before too
James B. Byrne wrote:
In my continuing investigation of CentOS-7 I did yet another minimal
install. Subsequent to that I ran yum update kernel, and then yum group
install KDE.
Now, KDE installed about 480Mb of stuff, which compares favourably to
Gnome's
971Mb. However, when I run startx
CS DBA wrote:
Hi All,
I am switching from Fedora20 to CentOS7 since I now run all my Linux
development in a VM and I get a more robust feature set (i.e. shared
folders with the host that just work, etc)
The only issue I have thus far is VPN connections. Looking at what's
installed on my
Anand Buddhdev wrote:
Hi CentOS folk,
In an RPM post-install script, is it possible to know the previous
version number, and the new version number of a package if it's an update?
I need to know this, because for a certain package, if updating from
version 1.x to 2.x, I need to run a
Rex Dieter wrote:
> CS DBA wrote:
>
>> Hi All;
>>
>> I'm runing a new install of CentOS 7, enabled the epel repo and ran:
>>
>> # yum install kmymoney
>>
>> I get this:
>>
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Ru
CS DBA wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> I'm runing a new install of CentOS 7, enabled the epel repo and ran:
>
> # yum install kmymoney
>
> I get this:
>
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kmymoney.x86_64 0:4.6.6-1.el7 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency:
Frank Bures wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded from CentOS 5 to 7. I have been running KDE. In
> version 5, if there was a pending update, an icon would appear in the
> panel, notifying about the update.
> There is no such icon in CentOS 7 - KDE 4.
>
> Is there a way to get this very
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