some general questions

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jul 22, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Brian McKee wrote:

>
> On Thursday, July 22, 2004, at 03:12  PM, Christopher Brown wrote:
>
>> 1. Is there an audio recording and editing software for PPC Linux? 
>> Before anyone points out the lame selection in the sound & video 
>> section of the start menu, please don't. I need something a LOT more 
>> professional.
>>
> Audacity is a good app.  I haven't tried it using YDL but it's avail 
> via yum
> (you might have to have freshrpms in your yum.conf)
> Note it often won't run at the same time as KDE (or gnome? i think... 
> see their website for details)
> so you likely will have to start a 'failsafe' session and launch it 
> from the xterm there.
>
>
>> 2. Deleting unwanted apps. Man there are a lot of crappy apps that I 
>> just didn't know better not to install when I installed YDL for the 
>> first time. 'yum remove ***' doesn't seem to work for individual apps 
>> so how do I get rid of some of those? Specifically those sound & 
>> video apps, the countless text editors, and myriad of games that only 
>> server to point out that drivers for my video card don't exist yet. 
>> (PowerBook 15" Aluminum)
>
> try yum remove kdegames
> and/or         kdemultimedia
>
> KDE apps come 'bundled'
>
>> 3. Unlike 'upgrading' YDL 2 - 3, is YDL 4 capable of being upgraded 
>> from YDL 3 - 4? If I'm just going to re-install the entire system 
>> question #2 isn't that important.
>>
>> Christopher
>>
> The note I saw seemed to indicate that was the goal (dunno if that's 
> going to be the reality though)

The only thing mentioned in the terrasoft article was that they were 
upgrading the inhouse systems via yum, because there was no installer 
for it yet.  Hopefully in the process they will work out the kinks to  
where everyone can upgrade that waay.

>
> HTH
> Brian
>
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