On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:26:50 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:

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From: Juan R. de Silva Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 21:50

I want to install GoldenDict on my fresh CentOS 6.3 installation. So far I've not found any GoldenDict rpm files created for CentOS.

Did you Google it yet? Lets assume yes and you found the many RPMs listed for fedora.

I certainly googled first. And yes, I did find many Fedora RPMs.

I'm coming from DEB environments and know little about RPMs. But even in DEB environments you cannot, for example, safely install Ubuntu DEB on Debian and vs.

I've read quite a bit of CentOS documentation too and found that it is not advisable to install even RPMs created for different version of CentOS itself. So, I concluded that Fedora RPMs are not suitable. Am I mistaken here?

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What about creating rpm from deb using alien? Would it be safe to attempt such install?

Then your question should be what is the best way to install RPM x which needs the following dependencies because the RPM is assuming Fedora version X.

I've not thought it this way yet. Again just because I know that I can use alien to create rpm from deb. The process that is more or less familiar to me, while I have no idea if there is a way to use Fedora RPMs on CentOS.

Anyway, your notes were somewhat informational, and I thank you. I will google the subject in the suggested direction and come (hopefully) with a better question.

On 1/1/2013 8:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:

On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 04:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Juan R. de Silva wrote:

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So, I concluded that Fedora RPMs are not suitable. Am I mistaken here?

Download the srpm and compile it on your Centos system. Then you get a "native" Centos RPM.

ASSUMING the base software can be built with the packages available on your centos version-of-choice.

if they require some bleeding edge new version of python or QT or whatever, you're DOA.