Hi, Derick: I am certainly interested in how you've set up your YDL 5 machine to use the Fedora extras, etc. and I am sure others are as well. Would you be willing to share your config file and how you accomplished this?
Thanks, -PRH On Saturday 08 September 2007 17:00, Derick Centeno wrote: > Buona Serra, Sacarde! > > And there my Italian ends. > > In my opinion, the best way to do what you are attempting is to have > yum sort out the dependencies needed for you. Depending upon which > version of YDL you are using you will have to modify yum.conf (for YDL > 4 and earlier) or yum.repos.d directory (for YDL 5) so that the > programs available within Fedora extras are visible and available to > yum. I don't believe that gnash is part of the standard yum library > reference; in other words when you install YDL yum can't see gnash > because it has no information about it. You need to modify either > yum.conf or the yum.repos.d directory to tell yum where to look. > > On my system I'm running YDL 5 and I've made the modifications > necessary so that yum knows where to find programs which reside in > Fedora extras. If you want the instructions unique to YDL 5 allowing > yum to find anything residing within Fedora extras let me know, and I'll > share them here. To illustrate the point however, once the > modification is done you should be able to do as I did. Here is a > printout of my invoking yum to search for gnash, note the wild card * > symbol which is very effective when you are looking for something you > don't know the complete spelling of or if you don't know exactly how a > program was named: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo yum search "gnash*" > Password: > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Searching Packages: > Setting up repositories > extras > [1/4] extras 100% |=========================| 951 > B 00:00 > fedora-extras > [2/4] fedora-extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 > kB 00:00 > updates > [3/4] updates 100% |=========================| 951 > B 00:00 > base > [4/4] base 100% |=========================| 1.1 > kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files > > > gnash.ppc 0.7.2-2.fc5 > fedora-extras Matched from: > gnash > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ > > > gnash-klash.ppc 0.7.2-2.fc5 > fedora-extras Matched from: > gnash-klash > The gnash flash movie player plugin for Konqueror. > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ > > > gnash-plugin.ppc 0.7.2-2.fc5 > fedora-extras Matched from: > gnash-plugin > The gnash flash movie player plugin for firefox or mozilla. > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ > > > Notice that yum searches whatever library it knows about to find this > or any other program. When a program is found which matches what you > instructed it to find, then it tells you what it is and where it is. > The next step is up to you. If it was me, and I wanted > everything related to gnash, then I would tell yum: > > sudo yum install "gnash*" > > Normally yum works exclusively within superuser; it is working within > user mode because of I included my username within the sudoer file, > allowing me to execute sudo which allows superuser access for a short > period of time (usually enough to execute normally restricted superuser > commands) and then returns me automatically to normal user mode without > superuser access. > > Remember that although yum can install and do many things for you > saving you from going insane searching for dependencies (or worse > having to build, compile and separately link and install each one), you > must inform yum first regarding where to look. > > Buona Fortuna... _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
