livna for FC5 launched

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Mar 21 04:08:32 UTC 2006


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Just in time with FC5 we are proud to announce rpm.livna.org support for
> FC5 on x86, x86_64 and for the first time for ppc as well. Installation
> instructions can as usually be found on the Configuration page at
> 
> http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html
> 
> Usually all that is needed to use livna is to run
> 
> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
> 
> After that you can start installing packages from livna via yum. 
> 
> Together with this new release a debuginfo and a development repository
> have been established as well. The repo-layout was slightly changed and
> is now similar to the layout used in Extras and Core. To browse the FC5
> repo start at:
> 
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/
> 
> A note for users of ati-fglrx and nvidia-glx: The drivers currently
> don't work with the FC5 release kernel due to a bug in it. A updated
> kernel that should fix this issue should be pushed as a regular Fedora
> updated soon. Updated kernel modules probably will follow shortly after
> that. Site note: The driver packages got renamed; they are now
> xorg-x11-drv-fglrx and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.
> 
> Another note: We now use the new standard for packaging kernel-modules
> that was developed in fedora-extras. All kernel modules got renamed due
> to that and the handling is a bit different, but in the end handling of
> kernel-modules hopefully gets easier in the end.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> CU
> thl
> 
> P.S.: In case of problems file a bug at bugzilla.livna.org ; tia
> 

I did an upgrade and needed to use rpm -Uvh instead of -ivh

Thanks!

Jim


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