Lanny Marcus spake the following on 7/27/2007 6:29 AM: > On 26 July 2007, Scott Silva wrote: >> IF it is in Fedora 6, it might be available for Centos 5, or you might >> be able to re-compile the src rpm. > > Scott: This is going to be a huge *LEARNING* experience for me! :-) Many > *newbie* questions here: Will it be better for me to get KStars only, > from the KStars web site, which comes with a warning (see below), or > from Fedora, which is much closer to CentOS? The problem is that it > normally is inside the KDE Edutainment RPM and if I get it from Fedora, > it will probably be inside that. If I get the KDE Edutainment SRC RPM > from Fedora, which version of Fedora should I get it from for CentOS > 4.4? (You wrote FC6 for CentOS 5). The kdeedu RPM is not on the CentOS > 4.4 DVD. I'm assuming it's not on the CentOS 5.0 DVD, but I don't have > that yet. If I'm able to make an RPM for KStars only, I would not plan > to install kdeedu later. However, I suspect there may be dependency > issues, with other KDE stuff, etc. There is *no* way I will be able to > get my wife to use CentOS on her box, if she cannot use KStars! Even my > 6 year old daughter wanted to use KStars last night, so her box is > another demanding KStars user. TIA, Lanny in Colombia There is a KDE repo for use with yum, but it will change things. For a desktop it should be OK. http://www.2robots.com/2005/05/18/kde-yum-repository/ -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!