Re: Beware Fedora 6.0
alan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.freshrpms.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, bob wrote:
> I tried to use the following
>
> The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click here
> <http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm>
> from within firefox, choose to open with Install Software (the default) then
> go to /Add/Remove Software/ from the main menu, where new applications will
> be available in the list.
>
>
> I have fedora 6.0 and now my add/remove software will not come up, because
> it's looking for something at freshrpms.
>
>
> Beware of freshrpms and fedora 6.0
That is true of any repository that does not have a FC6/devel branch.
Actually it is looking for a repository with a version number of something
like FC5.92 or similar. Until the official non-moving target is released,
I don't expect that to change.
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