On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:59:48 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I received comments about installing packages not built for fedora. > Is it an acceptable comment? > > Example. > I would like to install scidavis. Unfortunately, yum install scidavis > fails: No package scidavis available > What are the other options? > 1) scidavis is available for fedora 14 (and 15?), but not for newest versions: > fedora 16 shown up last year! Read http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/scidavis.git/tree/dead.package That confirms what Christopher has written in another reply. -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.14 0.08 0.12 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org