Where are the Repositories?

[Paul Higgins]

Hi,

I wish I could help you on more of this stuff, but right now dealing with 
dependency hell is far above my abilities.  Hopefully someone who is 
knowledgeable will speak up.  

In the meantime, it might be helpful if a few people would kindly share their 
repository lists with us.  I'm still using YDL 4.1 on my iBook G4, and would 
definitely appreciate seeing /etc/yum.conf files for 4.1.  I'm planning on 
upgrading to YDL 5 shortly, so a listing for YDL 5 would be great also.

As for your experiences with PPC Linux: I run a Debian x86 machine at work, 
and by comparison, I'm rather unimpressed with the status of PPC Linux (as 
far as desktop Linux goes, anyway).  Some of the problem has less to do with 
poor support from the Linux community and more to do with the many 
proprietary formats that still rule the online world.  I'm thinking in 
particular of Adobe Flash, which may be the most abused proprietary format on 
the Web today.  As you probably already know, there is currently no Flash 
player available for PPC Linux, though you might want to look here for a 
possible future solution: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIRA

If this situation continues, it doesn't really bode well for PPC Linux as a 
desktop solution (e.g. anything with a GUI).  This is really unfortunate 
because we are now getting to the point where Apple and other vendors are or 
will be abandoning the PPC platform entirely.

Regards,
-PRH


On Sunday 24 June 2007 19:39, David Lowe wrote:
> Advance Thanks,
>
> 	I've been using OS X [with Fink] and Ubuntu linux for a few years
> now.  I decided i would like to put some linux on my old PowerBook,
> and preferably experiment with rpms to supplement my familiarity with
> debs.  I finally got around to installing YDL 5.01, got online and
> immediately upgraded to 5.02.
>
> 	So now that i'm ready to actually use it, i can't find any of the
> programs that i actually want in the package manager:
> 1) BOINC
> 2) Battle for Wesnoth
>
> 	1) I see that BOINC is not available for linux/PPC.  Can somebody
> recommend another utility to manage network computing for this
> architecture?
>
> 	2) BfW is a great game, but has numerous dependencies.  Several of
> these aren't in the package manager at all: libsdl1.2, libsdl-
> image1.2, libsdl-mixer1.2, libsdl-net, libintl, and libfreetype2.
> I'm hoping that SDL-devel includes libsdl and that freetype-devel
> brings libfreetype2.  Does intltool provide libintl?  Also, i seem to
> be having trouble installing the various SDL splitoffs.  Since the
> package manager won't tell me explicitly what's in SDL-devel, i had
> to try compiling Wesnoth to discover that sdl-image is not currently
> installed.  This was disappointing to me, since Ubuntu's package
> manager gives real detail on each package, not just vague
> generalities.  Is there a repository somewhere that i can get
> binaries or already configured sources for this kind of stuff?
>
> 	3) I got source from www.libsdl.org for the sdl-image package, but
> it won't compile here due to mismatching versions [sdl-image download
> is 1.2.10, while installed SDL is 1.2.9].  Does this mean i'll have
> to go outside the package manager and re-install all SDL from source,
> or how else might i handle this situation?
>
> 	So, as a newbie giving my two cents, i haven't found Package Manager
> very useful - almost every search i've put into it has come up empty.
>
> Using a rusty Amiga 4000T, a shiny PowerMac G5, & a homebuilt Ubuntu box
>
> I hope that Schroedinger guy put some litter in here. Cat