[Novalug] Researching configurations

John Holland jbholland@gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 20:25:35 EST 2012


I don't really have an answer for you there, don't know.

On 03/07/2012 06:26 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
> From the looks of things rpmfusion seems to be more geared towards fedora not
> RHEL, correct???
>
> Jay
>
>> I've been using rpmfusion not rpmforge, but I think they both coexist
>> with epel, just not with each other.
>>
>>
>> On 03/07/2012 06:10 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
>>> Do you see
>>>
>>> RPMforge
>>> dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/
>>>
>>> as being able to work together?  I don't need cutting edge stuff here...
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>>> In my experience, you need to pick one of a few competing repos for the
>>>> stuff not covered by EPEL and the distro. If you have more than one of
>>>> those repos, you may get versions of things that don't get along or even
>>>> work.  My current /etc/yum.repos.d folder is
>>>>
>>>> epel-apache-maven  packagekit-media.repo  rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
>>>> epel.repo          redhat.repo
>>>> rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
>>>> epel-testing.repo  rhel-source.repo
>>>>
>>>> on my RHEL6 box. So I'm using rpmfusion. There are alternatives to that
>>>> which I don't remember the name of. I would say you should only have one
>>>> of those, whichever one it is.
>>>>
>>>> On my Fedora laptop I have an adobe-linux.repo, a dropbox.repo, a
>>>> google-musicmanager.repo - and also rpmfusion (which also has a nonfree
>>>> repo) - but these should not interfere with each other. There's a repo
>>>> for google-chrome as well I think.
>>>>
>>>> Once upon a time I had something like rpmfusion and rpmforge stuff mixed
>>>> up and I ended up reinstalling.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>




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