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To: Redcloak

Must have been recently added. According to the chart, it still doesn't support all the features such as FAX or memory card slots, nor is it a simple install:

Open a console window.
Follow these steps to log in as the super user:
Enter su.
Press Enter.
Enter the root password.
Note: The root password gives you administrative privileges on the system.
Press Enter.
Enter this command:
# yum install cups-devel
After the cups-devel package is installed, enter this command:
# yum install python-devel
After the python-devel package is installed, enter this command:
# yum install PyQt
5a. For Fedora C3, also enter this command:
# yum install sip
After the PyQt package is installed, enter this command:
# yum install net-snmp-devel
Make sure the following package is installed.
# yum install libjpeg-devel


81 posted on 07/07/2005 6:10:23 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

Doesn't look that difficult to me. Just command line package manager stuff. I've never used Yum, but it looks really similar to Apt, which is pretty darn easy.

Admittedly, it would probably be easier with Apt, because it resolves dependencies automatically, so you'd only have to type the first command, or something similar to it. The rest would be downloaded automatically. Once you learn the very simple syntax (apt-get install "program"), it's a hell of a lot easier than installing things in Windows.

Taking it a step further, if you use Synaptic, you could install it "point and click" without ever opening a terminal or browsing the web or local drives to find whatever files you needed.


85 posted on 07/07/2005 7:50:04 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH ("My vertical jump increased almost 2 inches." - Donald Lancow (www.donaldlancow.com))
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To: Golden Eagle

GE,

B2K and I have been through this. Fedroa comes with yum, and gyum (graphical yum). Instructions are usually posted in commandline yum because its easier to follow that then to click here, move the mouse there.

But if youre absolutly desperate for a graphical updater gyum is a no console way to do it that has been on FEDORA from at least core two upwards. Here is a screenshot (http://www.geocities.com/riordantn/install1.png) All you do is open it in the same manner as windows update, select the package you want to install and click install..


90 posted on 07/08/2005 7:18:59 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a perit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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