Getting started with packages...

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Andy!

Glad things are moving along for you!  I haven't attempted it with YDL 
4.1 but you could do:

#yum search xbox*

If yum has that information available to it; it will find it by 
searching the various mirrors you've entered into yum.conf.  You could 
also do:

#yum search xwindows*

or even

#yum search x*

The * acts as a wildcard symbol telling yum that any combination of 
letters or numbers are acceptable.  The advantage of doing things this 
way is that you may actually find the thing you want, but would never 
have guessed how that package was actually named by the developers!  
This little item has always surprised me personally.  So maybe the last 
choice:

#yum search x*

is actually a good strategy.  As yum find things it will inform you 
regarding what is installed, available and what is not installed.  
Remember that you should really do:

#man yum

or

#info yum

to learn more regarding how yum functions.  For the time being just 
install what you wish with yum; don't remove packages with yum however.

Returning to x*, yum will search anything with x and may actually find 
those portions of x not installed.  Make a note of whatever yum lists 
which interested you and then install it.  For examples, if it finds 
xwindows, you can do:

#yum install xwindows*

This will install xwindows as well as whatever is associated with 
xwindows.  Other than using yum you would perhaps have to go the project 
itself and build from source.  Let's say you can't do without xbox, then 
you may have to go to xbox.org themselves and download whatever is the 
latest thing available.  If you go that route make sure that you are 
familiar and comfortable with the compilation process within Linux.

Here a page which could be useful; it contains all kinds of stuff which 
I just passed over rather quickly.  Here it is:

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

Andrew Ball wrote:
> Hello Derick,
>
>     DC> Yum can be instructed to tolerate your choice of using dial-up
>       > by modifying the timeout variable within yum.conf.
>
> Thanks, that enabled me to install gcc, which in turn enabled me to
> bootstrap pkgsrc.  This is useful because yum seems to lack packages
> that pkgsrc has (perhaps they're there, but I know how to find them in
> pkgsrc).
>
> I would like to build the Blackbox X window manager, but pkgsrc is not
> able to find X headers. Are those something that I can fetch with yum?
>
> - Andy Ball
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at job blackbox]# bmake
> => Required installed package digest>=20010302: digest-20060826 found
> ===> Skipping vulnerability checks.
> WARNING: No /usr/src/pkgsrc/distfiles/pkg-vulnerabilities file found.
> WARNING: To fix, install the pkgsrc/security/audit-packages
> WARNING: package and run: ``/usr/pkg/sbin/download-vulnerability-list''.
> => Checksum SHA1 OK for blackbox-0.65.0.tar.gz
> => Checksum RMD160 OK for blackbox-0.65.0.tar.gz
> ===> Installing dependencies for blackbox-0.65.0nb6
> => Required installed package x11-links>=0.25: NOT found
> => Verifying reinstall for ../../pkgtools/x11-links
> ERROR: x11-links-0.30 requires X headers to be installed
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /usr/src/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /usr/src/pkgsrc/wm/blackbox
> [root at job blackbox]#
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