[ydl-gen] A couple of questions about Yellow Dog Linux

[Derick Centeno]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:21:30 -0500
Brian  Heibert <bheibert at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Yellow Dog Linux 4.1
> 
> I am wandering where can I find the following types of applications for
> Yellow Dog Linux.
> 
> 1) Music player to play my music (something like iTunes)
> 2) If there is any, A BASIC programming language or something similar
> 3) Where would I look to find just any kind of application?
> 
> Brian Heibert
> bheibert at verizon.net
> 
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Hi Brian:

First, make sure that up2date has been properly updated.  Those instructions are here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/

Linux is primarily constructed of the C language. You however, may not want a discussion regarding
usage as much as what is available within the YDL environment.  Instead of listing them for you;
it would be instructive to have yum find them while also providing a brief explanation of each.
Do the following:

[aguila at arakus ~]$ sudo yum search *languages* > findlang
Password:
[aguila at arakus ~]$

Explanation:
The sudo command allows me to access root functions, and will accept the user password.  This
implies that this user name is recorded elsewhere thereby allowing this particular execution.
Yum is being commanded to search anything (note *) associated with "languages" either before or
after that word  and place all results into a textfile called findlang, which then I can review
from within or by using any editor to open the file called findlang -- which will be placed into
the same directory (as the user which in my case would be /home/aguila).

I've also could have switched into superuser execute the something slightly different as so:

[aguila at arakus ~]$ su
Password:
[root at arakus aguila]# yum search *languages* > findlang
[root at arakus aguila]#
[root at arakus aguila]# exit
exit
[aguila at arakus ~]$


Explanation:  
Using the short form of superuser or su requires me to know the root password (different from the
user password).  The rest of the sequence of what yum is commanded to do is the same.

The advantage of pursuing either approach is that yum will tell you what is installed.  If did as I
did above you would find that php, c, c++, ruby, tk, python, tcl, java, fortran (g77) and others
were available and already installed.

If you want to specifically search for basic, you could do:

[aguila at arakus ~]$ sudo yum search *basic*
Searching Packages:
Setting up repositories
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files

Explanation:
This commands yum to search for any word either before or after basic.  The next few lines how yum
responds when it outputs to the terminal directly and what follows will a listing of anything it
finds with the word basic.  You will discover via this that currently there is no basic compiler
for YDL.  There is however, one open source basic compiler I'm aware of but it is not yet optimized
to work within PowerPC Linux.

In general, if you know the name of an application, then yum should be able to find it.  Just use
the method of searching with yum as illustrated above.

As regards music players just look under the Sound and Video menu within Gnome or KDE, a whole list
of available applications should appear.

Good Luck....
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