On 9/25/09, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:
On Friday 25 September 2009 17:02:24 Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
wrote:
I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so
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I have installed one package from the FC6 DVD (KDEEDU) on CentOS 5 (32 bit) to get KStars and that worked fine. But, as Phil pointed out, maybe better to rebuild from the srpm.
Sounds encouraging, thanks.
Anne: Forget the part about using binary RPMs from FC6 or any other distro. I have been reading the list, catching up on reading tonight, and Johnny made it very clear, 1 or 2 days ago, in another thread, this is *not* something to be done. Best to rebuild the SRPM.