which rpm to install

which rpm to install

[vjp2.at]

what are 'common' and 'src' in the various rpm files?
I want to get an old fedora (eg fc2) to run on linpus

I'm spoiled because in recent wintel versions I only have to install one file


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Re: which rpm to install

[Emanuel Berg]

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com writes:

> what are 'common' and 'src' in the various rpm files?

Debian, which I use, uses dpkg, and not RPM like Red
Hat and its sibling Fedora - however, 'src' does sound
like the the Elisp source (the corresponding emacs24-el
package on Debian) and 'common' sounds like
emacsen-common. You can use your package manager to
find out more, for example, in Debian, I type 'aptitude
show', and for emacsen-common, I read:

> Common facilities for all emacsen. This package
> contains code that is needed by all the (x)emacs
> packages.  It will be automatically installed when
> needed.

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Re: which rpm to install

[vjp2.at]

Thanks but part of my problem is that this unit is in "dependency hell" which
is the main reason I'm looking for the simplest old emacs to install.

I assume this means I should download everything that says emacs.

(The unit has no active wifi and further the repomd.xml file is out if date)



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Re: which rpm to install

[Dan Espen]

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com writes:

> what are 'common' and 'src' in the various rpm files?
> I want to get an old fedora (eg fc2) to run on linpus

FC2? where would you find a repository for that?

Anyway, with Fedora:

yum install emacs

> I'm spoiled because in recent wintel versions I only have to install one file

Who cares about your windows experience?

With Fedora you type one command or go into the GUI and click on the
module you want.

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Re: which rpm to install

[Dan Espen]

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com writes:

> Thanks but part of my problem is that this unit is in "dependency hell" which
> is the main reason I'm looking for the simplest old emacs to install.
>
> I assume this means I should download everything that says emacs.
>
> (The unit has no active wifi and further the repomd.xml file is out if date)

And you are running FC2?

You're out of luck.  You might download and compile recent source, but
if you are missing one -devel package you are not going to get anywhere.

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Re: which rpm to install

[Emanuel Berg]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

> Who cares about your windows experience?

Whoa, be polite, especially to a guy who ask for help
installing Emacs :)

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Re: which rpm to install

[vjp2.at]

I am running Linpus (linpus.com)
Although I might run a diff linux, right now I can't
Linpus is a Fedora version for netbooks
Even when I had wifi I could not get repomd.xml to work
So I want a dependency-free rpm
That's why I went to fc2 or even fc1
Hoping back then they didn't create "dependency hell"



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Re: which rpm to install

[Rusi]

On Friday, January 24, 2014 1:29:44 PM UTC+5:30, Vasos Panagiotopoulos wrote:
> I am running Linpus (linpus.com)
> Although I might run a diff linux, right now I can't
> Linpus is a Fedora version for netbooks
> Even when I had wifi I could not get repomd.xml to work
> So I want a dependency-free rpm
> That's why I went to fc2 or even fc1
> Hoping back then they didn't create "dependency hell"


You will probably head for different problems this way with 10 year old
sw on current hw.

Have you checked (things like) this?
http://techspalace.blogspot.in/2009/04/offline-update-ubuntu.html

Re: which rpm to install

[vjp2.at]

thanks



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