Install other Apps - HOW TO
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Nov 28 20:39:30 UTC 2004
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:35:04PM -0400, Terry R. Grier wrote:
> How do I go about learning to install programs that are not listed via yum?
If you're lucky, they're packaged in a reputable third-party yum repository
-- see <http://fedoratracker.org/tracker.py?mode=pkgSearch> to search.
Otherwise, there's a _lot_ to learn. Here's one place to start
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html>. (Although it's a
little out of date -- software like yum solves the main problem the author
has with RPM packages.)
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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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