'yum --enablerepo' command (Newbie).

[Brian Durant]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Brian Durant wrote:
> 
>> I am a Fedora Core 5 PPC64 user and am curious about the 'yum 
>> --enablerepo' command. If I wanted to run 'yum --enablerepo=atrpms 
>> install w32codec' would yum be able to sort out whether there was a 
>> PPC or PPC64 version of "w32codec" or not? Do all repositories also 
>> have PPC and PPC64 versions or are there only certain repositories 
>> that contain PPC and PPC64 versions, like FreshRPMS?
> 
> 
> AFAIK, the "w32codec" package contains DLLs taken from Windows, which 
> are executable i386 files.  They're only going to be available for i386 
> platforms.

DLLs from Windows in Linux? I didn't realize that DLLs from Windows are 
used in Linux. I mean, I can understand open and closed source software 
running on Linux, but Windows DLLs would just open Linux to Win viruses, 
wouldn't it? Weird.

Cheers,

Brian