Message-ID: <1261608091.9982.19.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: 2009-12-23T22:41:31Z
From: Christos Hatzis
Subject: installing RKWard on RHEL
In-Reply-To: <C8E0EC82-63EC-492B-8293-C598BB7F1C1D@me.com>
Thank you Marc.
To be clear for future reference, binaries packaged for Fedora distro's
are not to be installed on RHEL and vice versa. Same holds for rpm's?
Thanks.
-Christos
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 16:31 -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to install RKWard to an RHEL workstation. I tried
> >
> > $ yum install rkward
> >
> > but that did not work as it could not find the package in the standard
> > repositories. The RKWard project page suggests that
> >
> > You can also find the build (of all versions of RKWard) at koji and
> > other information regarding the package at pkgdb
> >
> > Is there a way to install the package on RHEL or the above resources
> > are
> > only built for Fedora?
> >
> > Thank you.
> > -Christos
>
>
> Christos,
>
> The EPEL is the yum based repo for RHEL and more info is here:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> That being said, I did not see the package listed in Bodhi for RHEL,
> only for FC11 and FC12, which are the currently supported versions of
> Fedora. F10 went EOL in the past week.
>
> The Bodhi link is here:
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/rkward
>
> The same for Koji:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4881
>
> The RKWard site does not list pre-built binaries being available for
> RHEL, only Fedora within the domain of RH distros:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Binaries_and_Build_Scripts
>
> Thus, you will likely have to install from source for the time being.
> Information on that path is here:
>
> http://rkward.sourceforge.net/
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
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