Lanny Marcus spake the following on 7/27/2007 9:47 AM: > I was able to install the kdeedu RPM, from the Fedora Core 3 Install > DVD, without any problem, on my CentOS 4.4 box and KStars is up and > running and has been updated. :-) > > The bad news is that I didn't learn anything, by doing it this quick > and simple way, so now I'm going to begin reading about creating my own > RPMs. > > When I get the CentOS 5.0 install DVD, that will be another issue > for getting KStars installed. Thanks to those who responded! KStars > is a very powerful and a very elegant program, for anyone interested > in Astronomy. Lanny You can get Fedora 3 src rpms for Centos 4 and Fedora 6 srpms for Centos 5. Then it can be as simple as rpmbuild --rebuild bla-bla-.src.rpm. It can also be difficult if other dependencies creep in. But the rpmbuild process should warn you. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!