yum& fftw

[James Wilkinson]

cfk wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>  I have two computers, one with FC2 and one with FC3. There is a package 
> called "fftw" which is one the FC3 system and I would like to get it 
> installed on the FC2 system.

Fedora Tracker (www.fedoratracker.org) tells me that this appears in
Fedora Extras.

>  Typing "yum info fftw" on the FC3 system returns Name: fftw, Version 2.1.5, 
> Repo: fedora stable.
> 
>  Typing "yum info fftw" on the FC2 system returns "Cannot find a package 
> matching fftw".
> 
>  Is there any way to move forward on the FC2 system short of changing it into 
> an FC3 system?

Well, you could try configuring the FC2 yum to look at
download.fedora.us, since that package appears there. Putting something
like this:

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.stable/

into /etc/yum.conf should work. However, if you've configured any other
repos (apart from Fedora and its updates), there is a possibility of
clashes between them and fedora.us. See
http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc2/#installsoftware for more details.

>  A corollary question is: "Given a working FC2 system, would I expect to be 
> able to transparently do an FC3 installation on that system and still expect 
> things like its ftp & http servers to still work?"

"Probably". It depends on how much you've customised them, but a
straightforward install should just work.

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Hope this helps,

James.

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