Using yum with fedora 3

[Dan]

Eric Brunson wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> Dude, don't use "Reply" to start a new thread.
> Now your unrelated question is threaded to mine via headers like these:
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> References: <440DE90F.6040606 at brunson.com>
> In-Reply-To: <440DE90F.6040606 at brunson.com>
>
> And I'm less likely to get a useful response now.
>
>
> Bruce Bales wrote:
>
>> I recently installed fedora core 3 and have had some difficulties 
>> with using yum.  Finding many different suggestions on the internet 
>> as to which repositories to use is confusing.
>>
>> When I do a sudo yum update, I get a lot of missing dependencies 
>> (below).  And yum itself won't install them.  Many of these same 
>> dependencies prevent me from installing certain programs.
>>
>> Where do I find the correct repositories for Fedora core 3?
>> bruce
>>
>>
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libjasper-1.701.so.1 is needed by package 
>> kdelibs
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libslp.so.1 is needed by package kdenetwork
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libxmms.so.1 is needed by package kdeutils
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libfribidi.so.0 is needed by package 
>> kdegraphics
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libjasper-1.701.so.1 is needed by package 
>> ImageMagick
>> Error: Missing Dependency: gnupg2 >= 1.9.6 is needed by package gpgme
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libfltk_gl.so.1.1 is needed by package 
>> OpenEXR
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libpth.so.20 is needed by package gpgme
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libfltk.so.1.1 is needed by package OpenEXR
>>
>>  
>
Yes, send new threads directly to fedora-list at redhat.com . And as for 
the question, there's different opinions on the matter, but generally 
you will want to use the base (fedora.repo), updates-released 
(fedora-updates.repo), extras (fedora-extras.repo) and livna 
(livna.repo) repositories; these are all continually kept compatible 
with one another, and only for a few obscure programs you might have to 
go to rpmforge repositories or others. You can look at 
http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/samples/yum.conf and take the Fedora Extras 
and Livna.org sections and put them in the appropriate .repo files (in 
/etc/yum.repos.d/), and JPackage (lots of java packages, also kept 
compatible with extras) also if you like. Leave the stock yum.conf though.
-Dan