drupal 7 in F14?

[Dave Stevens]

On Friday, June 03, 2011 04:49:04 PM 夜神　岩男 wrote:
> --- On Sat, 2011/6/4, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been learning about Drupal 7 on a CentOS install and it is more 
> > convenient to use it on my F14 box for learning purposes. The install 
> > was just a yum command, but I'm accustomed to finding and running the 
> > install.php file to configure it. When I start an instance of firefox 
> > as root and browse to that file I don't get the expected install 
> > screen sequence but rather some ascii gibberish. Also the file 
> > location is in /usr/share rather than as I would have expected in a 
> > folder off /var/www/html.
> > 
> > Is there a reference for D7 in Fedora? There's no man page. I have a 
> > couple of D7 books, it's the Fedora-specific bits I'm having trouble 
> > with.
> > 
> > Advice much appreciated.
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> This was fun for me to figure out as well. Drupal 6 is what is in the F14
> respositories, not Drupal 7 (unless there is a package name extension
> which differentiates between the two -- "yum install drupal" installs
> Drupal 6).

yes, I see that. Here's what I got:

[dave at davehost ~]$ yum list drupal
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
drupal.noarch                                  6.20-1.fc14                                  
updates
[dave at davehost ~]$ yum list drupal*
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
drupal7.noarch                                       7.0-4.fc14                            
@updates
Available Packages
drupal.noarch                                        6.20-1.fc14                           
updates 
drupal-calendar.noarch                               6.x.2.2-2.fc13                        
fedora  
drupal-cck.noarch                                    6.x.2.8-1.fc14                        
fedora  
drupal-date.noarch                                   6.x.2.4-1.fc13                        
fedora  
drupal-service_links.noarch                          6.x.2.0-1.fc14                        
updates 
drupal-views.noarch                                  6.x.2.12-1.fc14                       
updates 
drupal-workspace.noarch                              6.x.1.4-2.rc1.fc13                    
fedora  
drupal6-advanced-help.noarch                         1.2-2.fc14                            
updates 
drupal6-filefield.noarch                             6.x.3.9-1.fc14                        
updates 
drupal6-footnotes.noarch                             2.5-1.fc14                            
updates 
drupal6-image.noarch                                 6.x.1.1-1.fc14                        
updates 
drupal6-video.noarch                                 6.x.4.2.beta2-2.fc14                  
updates 
drupal6-views_bulk_operations.noarch                 1.10-6.fc14                           
updates 
drupal6-yubikey.noarch                               6.x.2.0.beta2-1.fc14                  
updates 
[dave at davehost ~]$ 





> Here are a few links that may clear things up a bit:
> http://zxq9.com/archives/442
> http://drupal.org/node/557910
> http://drupal.org/node/1056404
> Note that these are installations for Drupal 7 from drupal.org, not from
> the yum repositories for F14, as the repositories do not carry D7. This
> means you have to pay attention to the report panel inside Drupal and keep
> up with updates on your own (which is less fun than using yum update,
> obviously, but not hard).

Yes, I'll follow up on the references, thanks very much.

Dave


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