install command line other than YUM?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Firefox is now in YDL Extras, which IIRC was in the stock yum.conf file.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:18:15 -0500, mascarasnake wrote:

> Hey Kristo -
> 
> You have to change your yum.conf file. YDL doesn't supply those apps stock.
> 
> In the freshrpms 3.0 repository Firefox is at:
> 	firefox-0.10.1-0.10.0.yd3.fr.ppc.rpm
> and thunderbird is at:
> 	thunderbird-0.8.0-0.6.0.yd3.fr.ppc.rpm
> I don't see their equivalents in the 4.0 repository.
> 
> Not knowing which version of YDL you are running kinda hinders any 
> further suggestions, you could download the RPMs and run rpm -Uvh on 
> them both and report back with success or failure.
> 
> Or you can get the tarballs and install them manually
> 
> Here's where the RPMS can be found:
> <http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/RPMS/firefox-0.10.1-0.10.0.yd3.fr.ppc.rpm>
> <http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/RPMS/thunderbird-0.8.0-0.6.0.yd3.fr.ppc.rpm>
> 
> If these work for you, you might want to consider adding:
> 	[freshrpms]
> 	name=Yellow Dog Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
> 	baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/
> to your yum.conf file
> 
> Or you can get the tarballs and install them manually
> 
> g'luck
> 
> Kristo SovereignX wrote:
>> What is the command line to install say Firefox or Thunderbird.  "yum
>> install firefox" does not work.  Two options are from a web directory
>> address or where I have downloaded it onto my computer.
>> :-/Kristo
>> 
>> 
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