[maemo-developers] How to install Xepphyr deb file on Redhat which uses rpms?

[From: Paul Klapperich]

On 3/21/07, Paul F. Sehorne <paul at sehorne.org> wrote:
>
> I now have yum working (Installed version 2.0.8.) BUT.....
>
> Unfortunately the command suggested in the post below does not work
> (even with the typo corrected).  I suspect the reason is that there is
> no rpm for xephyr (only deb) except for the one I created with alien.
> (Another reason could be that list of repositories in the yum.conf is
> out of date)


Did you do a "# yum update" or "$ sudo yum update" before  the yum install
command? If that doesn't help, then you're missing whichever repository
contains xephyr. It's extremely rare to find something in DEB but not RPM.
The reverse is much more common.

It is, apparently, in the FC6 repositories, at least[1]. Here's a link to
that RPM[2]. From what I can tell, it's not in any of the RHEL repositories.
At least you may be able to resolve the dependencies using "yum install
library-name" use "yum search query" to see if package query exists in your
repository set.


[1]http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/03/01/maemo-30-on-fedora-core-6-n800-development-environment
[2]download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/
xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-47.6.fc6.i386.rpm<http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/3946355/com/xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-47.6.fc6.i386.rpm.html>

--Paul

I have added a stanza to yum.conf that points to a directory on my
> machine where I have placed a (dummy) header.info file.  yum finds the
> header.info file, but of course complains about its format.  So I now
> have to know the format to put in the header.info file.  (I just want to
> write code!)  I'm searching the Internet and have learned that later
> versions of yum no longer use the header.info file.  They now use xml.
> Of course, I would still have to know the format of the xml if there is
> no public repository for xephyr that is compatible with yum (meaning an
> rpm repository I assume).
>
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
> Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> > try 'sudo yum install xorg-x11-serer-Xephyr'
> >
> > --Vlad
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:33 -0600, Paul F. Sehorne wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks to advice from Kimmo Hämäläinen, I now have my first Hildon
> >> program (the sample) compiled and ready to run.  Next is to get Xephyr
> >> running.  I'm running Redhat which uses RPMs.  How do I install the
> >> Xephyr DEB file?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Paul
>
>
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