Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Timothy Murphy]

David Boles wrote:

>>>> It seems to me that it is up to freshrpms to explain clearly
>>>> on their web-site how to install their repository.
>>>> I wouldn't have thought that would be very difficult.
>>>>
>>> Fortunately they do[1].
>>>
>>> [1] "The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click
>>> here from within firefox, choose to open with Software Installer (the
>>> default) then go to Add/Remove Software from the main menu, where new
>>> applications will be available in the list."
>> 
>> I thought we were talking about yum repositories?
>> Not how to install freshrpms software.
> 
> Did you read this? This installs the "yum repositories" configuration
> files for freshrpms.

I'm afraid I didn't find the explanation above,
or the one at freshrpms.net, very clear.
(I didn't realise that "click here" above meant
"click where it says 'click here'"!)

I would have said something like,
"To add freshrpms to your repositories,
download freshrpms-release.rpm (with a link)
and install with rpm -Uvh".

Not very important though.
My point really was that since one would presumably 
have to go to freshrpms.net anyway to find out about it,
it didn't matter too much whether RedHat gave a pointer or not.

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