Trying to find some software

[John Bowden]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 19:54, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> John Bowden wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> > I'm trying to find two packages Plptools and Kpsion which will allow me
> > to connect my Psion S5 to my FC5 box. I have these repositories enabled
> > in in yum: core, extras, legacy, update, livna and livna updates. Doing a
> > search amongst those repositories does not find either of the packages.
> > If I do a search on rpmfind I get a choice of, other, suse,altlinux and
> > rh7. Which one would be the best / easiest to install on my fc5 box, or
> > does any one know where I can find fc5 specific versions of these files.
> > Is there any more repositories that I'm missing?
>
> Why not grab the source at
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8797 and build a
> new RPM for it?
>
> Actually, I just looked and there is a spec file in the tarball.  You
> should be able to build your own RPM issuing the command:
>
> rpmbuild -ba plptools.spec
>
> Once you've set up your rpmbuild directory structure, of course.  See
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines for some good info
> about building packages.
>
> Thomas
I have dl the source and compiled plptools. will have a go later at turning it 
into an rpm. Just would just like to find Kpsion a nifty front end for it
 
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