[ale] EL3.0 comparable to Fedora 1,2 or RH9?

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Sat Jul 3 11:25:33 EDT 2004


Thank you so much!  That is exactly what I needed to know.
Dow

Doug McNash wrote:

>Check out 
>
>http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/faq.html
>
>about the middle of the page lists a few apt repositories I have not
>tried yet.
>
>Whitebox Linux (~=REL3.0) uses yum and provides a update repository. 
>Yum seems to work as well as apt but unfortuatly the Whitebox sites seem
>to have bandwith problems.
>
>On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:14, Dow Hurst wrote:
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>>If looking for apt repositories to add software to RHEL3.0 for Workstations, 
>>what repositories would be appropriate?  I've gotten apt-get installed and 
>>also checkinstall by using the Fedora Core 1.0.  However, if I want to get KDE 
>>installed so I have access to K3B, the very nice DVD burning app, what 
>>repositories would work properly?  Currently, I also found a repository for 
>>apt that has KDE ready to install that has RHEL3.0, however, after attempting 
>>the install, I got conflicts with OO1.1 and SunJava links into Mozilla.  That 
>>seems such a trivial conflict yet the installation died.  Better to have 
>>apt-get not force the install than to cause conflicts.  Any advice?
>>
>>After dealing with rpm hell a few times, I am really liking apt-get.  If 
>>anyone is interested, I'd be happy to pass on my info and links once I've got 
>>the kinks worked out.
>>Dow
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