YDL RPMs (was Re: Compiling from source)

[Duke Robillard]

> From: Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>

> 
> Several recent posts were made on the question of using RPMs as opposed 
> to installing from source, and I'm pretty confused on the issue.
> 
> I just installed Mozilla 1.6 on my wife's iBook (running MacOSX 
> exclusively). No problem at all--there was a download on the Mozilla 
> site for MacOSX--easy, easy, easy. So I got envious that she now has 
> this cool new ver of Moz on her box, & I'm limping along with 1.2.1. But 
> when I checked the Mozilla site for a Linux download, the one offered is 
> for a PC: "System Requirements:  Intel pentium class processor (233 MHz 
> or faster recommended)"   etc.

You can get an rpm for Mozilla 1.4 (and lots of other goodies) from

http://ydl.oregonstate.edu/contrib/3.0/ppc/

more goodies here, too:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/yellowdog/3.0/

That last one is supposed to work with apt-get, but I haven't
managed to get it going.


Duke