[PlanetCCRMA] apt repo for fedora extras & extras development?

Peter Lutek plutek@infinity.net
Mon Oct 31 12:48:02 2005


Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:50 +0000, Nigel Henry wrote:
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>>On Monday 31 October 2005 04:02, Michael Gurevich wrote:
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>>>I've been looking for this too. I did some research and found that
>>>rpm.livna.org seems to have up-to-date Fedora Extras:
>>>http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.extras/
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>>>but there doesn't seem to be a pkglist.extras, so apt can't find it. I
>>>wonder if this is by design?
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>>>Michael.
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>>Hi Michael. Sorry not to have come back sooner. I've been trying to get some 
>>audio apps running with wine. As nobody else has come back with any 
>>suggestions, I presume that there isn't an apt repository for Fedora-extras. 
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>Hmmm, there is one for fc4 at Planet CCRMA, just add a url with "extras"
>at the end instead of "core", "updates", etc, etc. 
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>__BUT__: it is a snapshot for fc4 I have not updated in a long long time
>so it is _not_ current. Before I update I have to test to see if
>anything there breaks Planet CCRMA packages (at least in obvious ways). 
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>-- Fernando
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>>I'll just have to go with Yum for those. It's only for deps for two apps. 
>>Smack. A drum machine, which needs om, and omins as deps. Unfortunately om 
>>has a load of deps. Gtkmm, glibmm,libsigc++-2.0, and the list goes on. The 
>>other app is Sineshaper. A synth, which also needs gtkmm, and the rest. I'm 
>>not too good working with tarballs, and thought an apt repo would speed 
>>things up a bit. Many thanks anyway, for replying. All the best. Nigel.
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>>>On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Nigel Henry wrote:
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>>>>Hi. Is there an apt repository for Fedora extras, and Fedora extras
>>>>development? They say to use yum, but I'd prefer to use apt-get, as it
>>>>has synaptic, and is usefull for tracking down available packages. Nigel.
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i've been using the kernel.org fedora 3 extras repository with my fc3 
planet laptop with no troubles.

-p