I thought yum was distributed as a "noarch" package, not really a binary
or a source package, and it is installed with a n "i" or a "U" just like
a binary, and with no machine architecture specified (hence the name).
Of course I have been known to be wrong about these things, more times
that I care to remember :-)
Geert Janssens wrote:
Dear Kevin,
What do you mean, it doesn't work?
I have told you in at least two mails before that without detailed error
descriptions, it's very hard to help you. Please make it a habit to detail
your problems.
Based on what I see in you mail now, it looks as if you are trying to install
a source rpm. Those can't be installed. Or more precisely, when you install
them, you really install a source package, ready to be compiled.
What you would want, is either a binary package (for PowerPC, you can
recognize them because their name has 'ppc' instead of 'src'), or you can
build the source package:
su -
rpmbuild <packagename>
The resulting binary package wil be found in /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/
(This last one is from the top of my head, since I don't have ydl installed
right now).
Just one warning though if you are going to build the package yourself: the
package you tried to install is a package coming from the fedora core 4
distribution (see the fc4 in the name ?), and I'm not sure you can build this
on yld4. I mean, I am not sure you can meet all the dependencies that your
fc4 package requires. But it's easy to find out: just try the build.
Geert
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