I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself?
On 23/08/11 20:11, Lars Eighner wrote:
I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself?
You may not like "gramps" but it works and is available via yum.
Bob
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On 08/23/2011 07:11 PM, Lars Eighner wrote:
I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself?
It depends on the libraries it was compiled ageist. What I usually do is grab the source RPM, and compile it on my system. You run into less problems that way.
Mikkel - --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellertson@gmail.com wrote:
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On 08/23/2011 07:11 PM, Lars Eighner wrote:
I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself?
It depends on the libraries it was compiled ageist. What I usually do is grab the source RPM, and compile it on my system. You run into less problems that way.
+1 for this method but watch the output from rpmbuild carefully or better yet build it under mock so you get a nice log file. Some of the libraries are have different names and some of the macros are different so depending how the spec file is written you could still run into problems.
Richard
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 23/08/11 20:11, Lars Eighner wrote:
I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself?
You may not like "gramps" but it works and is available via yum.
It's not so much disliking gramps as having a big stack of php functions to query a lifelines database and lifelines report-language scripts to produce pages customized to my site.
Also apparently to get a command-line image viewer, I have to compile/install zgv since, I discover the fb in fbi stands for framebuffer.
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 19:11 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself?
The optimal solution here would be for you to take the OpenSuSE source RPM, extract it, modify the spec file so that it corresponds to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines[1] and then submit it for package review[2] in Fedora. That way others can use this tool as well.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
On 24/08/11 08:46, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 19:11 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture.
In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself?
The optimal solution here would be for you to take the OpenSuSE source RPM, extract it, modify the spec file so that it corresponds to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines[1] and then submit it for package review[2] in Fedora. That way others can use this tool as well.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
Yes, I would like a copy to try here.
Bob
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