On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi people, >> >> I have a question related to package installation. >> I found a Fedora Spin named Fedora Electronic Lab which had a lot of >> packages related to electronics pre-installed. I would like to use it, but I >> am already using Ubuntu and I think installing a new distro will involve >> some changes in the disk partitioning, which I don't want to get into as far >> as possible. >> >> I thought of an alternative, that is, installing the Fedora package >> manager (yum) in Ubuntu and then getting all the electronics packages >> through yum using a Fedora repository. I have already installed yum, but I >> am not sure that installing packages through it is a good idea, since apt >> and yum might get into some inexplicable conflict with each other. >> >> So, if there's anyone who has successfully used yum in Ubuntu, can you >> tell me how to set up the software sources (something analogous to >> /etc/apt/sources.list in Ubuntu)? Or if it turns out that using yum is not >> viable, can someone suggest a solution for my problem? >> >> Thanks, >> Mihir. >> > > I do not have answer to your queries but I would like to suggest followings > > Please use FedoraElectronicsLab CD and then apply following command > > *yum list all* > > > This will list all the packages in EFL, now you can search on ubuntu repo > (using apt-cache) to find out similar packages in ubuntu. One the list is > confirmed you can send me or blog it, List will be useful for creating > CollegeLevelDistro. > > Thanks > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya > │ http://narendrasisodiya.com > └─────────────────────────┘ > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > I already have the list of packages- it can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lewis41/FEL/Manuals I tried to copy this list and perform a sudo apt-get on it, but most of the packages were not found. What I want is to install ALL of the packages, I don't want to take the trouble of searching manually- rather I would like to find a Fedora repo and then install all of these from there. That's why I posted this question. -- Mihir Mehta, B. Tech. student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
