On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 16:14 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Mmmh, If I'm a fedora user, and need a package for something that isn't > in those 8232 binary packages, what should I do? Install from sources? > Or is there some sort of organized way to look for RPMs in unofficial > repositories? (I head of rpmfind, but I'm not sure it's what I think) There are third-party yum repositories. For various stuff (including multimedia applications, codecs, mythtv, asterisk, games) there's ATRPMS (http://www.atrpms.net/) and RPMFusion (http://rpmfusion.org/) (which is going to be a merging of 3rd-party repositories Dribble, Livna and FreshRPMS (which, I think, has Dag Wiers packages, as well)). Java packages for Fedora can be had from JPackage (http://www.jpackage.org/). There are several individual companies with their own repositories for Fedora like Google and Adobe. With a properly configured yum system (and some cooperation between some 3rd-party repos), all of these packages can be seamlessly and effortlessly be downloaded and installed on Fedora. You can also install from sources. Anyone can do the "./configure; make; make install" routine. Though, of course, those won't be managed by the package manager. Personally, if I can't find a repository with an RPM package for software I want installed, I write my own spec file (with the tools provided in the rpmdevtools package) and rpmbuild my own. RPMFind is a manual way of finding RPM packages and you're not guaranteed that the RPM you'll find will integrate well on Fedora systems. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
