On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:01:45 -0800 (PST) > ann kok wrote: > >> 1/ How can I get this program install if yum won't find it? > > Generally speaking it's best to stick with rpm installs on a Centos system but > if something consists of, for example, one single executable file, then you can > just copy that anywhere that's convenient and run it from there. (Put it > in /usr/local/bin if you want multiple users to have access to it, put it into > ~/bin if you just want to use it yourself. That way it's on your default path.) > >> 2/ Can I use fedora12 fping rpm to install on it? > > Some Fedora srpms can be recompiled for Centos. Sometimes it's a simple matter > of "rpmbuild --rebuild whatever.srpm", sometimes you have to edit the .spec > file to make it work. And sometimes it doesn't work at all, depending on other > factors like dependencies. It's not as easy as one might hope: There are new guidelins for writing Fedora RPM's, such as the use of '%global' instead of '%define', that can be very confusing. Also, the SRPM's from RHEL 6 and from Fedora 14 often have a 'docs' package that is compiled with the "BuildArch: noarch" option, which breaks the living tar out of compiling it unde CentOS 5.x or RHEL 5.x due to scattered debugifo debris which is not correctly bundled.