[luau] fedora q's

[Charles Lockhart]

Hi Vince,

Probably it's me missing the big picture, or maybe a bunch of smaller 
pictures, but:
Warren said that these other packages I was interested were available 
via apt/yum from 3rd party servers.  I guess that meant to me that they 
aren't available from fedora or redhat, but were available somewhere else.

I looked at the fedora mirror list already, but it seems to me that's a 
list of mirrors for fedora, which doesn't have the packages I was 
looking for.  Of course, I could be very wrong, but the ones I checked 
certainly seemed to have the same content as the local fedora server.

I'd already read the HOWTO, which is how I downloaded and started using 
apt and yum.  Which, by the way, are just awesome.  I mean, really, 
really awesome.  My fingers are tingling at this potential I've stumbled 
across (which, apparently, the rest of the world has known about for 
some time).  But while it did help me to get apt/yum installed and my 
stuff already loaded updated just fine, more or less, it didn't tell me 
anything about 3rd party servers.  I'd like to try to load a working 
version of xine, for instance.

I have been trying to get the apt/yum/synaptic stuff I installed from 
fedora to work with freshrpms, but to no avail.  I don't know what the 
incompatibility is, or if it's just something I'm being stupid about.

Also, was I being a total knob or something?  As a computer guy, the 
first thing I try to do is to figure it out, then start searching for 
info on the web via google and others, then try to figure it out again. 
   Then, if everything fails, I finally decide that I need to buck up 
and confess my ignorance to an entire community of other computer people.

To be honest, I found Warren's response to be fairly arrogant.  "These 
are easily found with Google. Please do not ask me to point the way." 
Maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but I really just didn't apreciate the 
attitude.

Uh, starting to rant, need to stop now.

Thanks,

-Charles

Vince Hoang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:55:10AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> 
>>>>In response to a problem I was having with version issues
>>>>between RH 7.3 and RH 9 ( that RH 9 has some functionality
>>>>"dumbed down" to remove liability for distributing software
>>>>that uses things like mpeg, etc ), Warren mentioned that the
>>>>full user versions could be downloaded and installed using
>>>>fedora and a 3rd party server. What 3rd party servers are
>>>>availble?
>>>
>>>These are easily found with Google. Please do not ask me to
>>>point the way.
>>
>>Well, not so easy for me. I'd already tried google, but the
>>results were too ambiguous. I'm probably phrasing the question
>>to google wrong, but I'm new to this apt/yum thing, so it's
>>difficult to work past that.
> 
> 
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraMirrorList