Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:17:00PM -0700, centos at 911networks.com wrote: > >> When I am looking for a package that does not exist under rhel5, >> is it better to get rhel4 or fc6? >> > Get RHEL5 and install the fc6 package on it. > Or better yet, grab the FC6 SRPM and recompile it on your RHEL5/FC6 to be sure all your shared libraries, etc match. Very simple to setup and perform as a non-root user: #configure your non-root user's rpm build environment mkdir $HOME/rpm mkdir $HOME/rpm/SOURCES mkdir $HOME/rpm/SPECS mkdir $HOME/rpm/BUILD mkdir $HOME/rpm/SRPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386 echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros #build the rpm against your installed platform rpmbuild --rebuild your-fc6.src.rpm Jay