How to find rpms for various distros?

[Bayard Coolidge]

Well, I've been running SuSE for a long time, since about 7.3 or so,
so I'm a bit apprehensive about mixing packages between distributions
unless I'm REALLY sure about what's going to be put where.

"xdiif/mgdiff for rel4" is a bit confusing to me - what's "rel4" ? If you're
referring to a Fedora release, then you may want to install that Fedora
release and not fuss with SUSE or Debian packages, and look for
Fedora/Red Hat packages on the Red Hat ftp sites or their mirrors.

That said, if you'd rather keep your SuSE installation, then I'd point you
to either ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/
or ftp://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/suse
but they probably do NOT have the necessary giblets set up for you to
do a YaST update from an arbitrary directory. (I have NOT, for example,
been able to find ANY SuSE mirror or server from which I can use YaST
to update my SUSE 10.0 system to KDE 3.5. SImply downloading the RPMs
to my system invites an RPM dependency whirlpool into which I dare not
descend, thank you...). I have been having similar problems/issues with
GnuCash, which seems to require an incredible array of shared libraries
and other random giblets, mostly Gnome-related, that I'm nor sure I want.

However, if you're willing to settle for a simple ftp of one or two rpms, you
should try to forage in twisty passages like:

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/supplementary

which could contain interesting stuff that you'd otherwise overlook.

It's also entirely possible that an RPM for your distro hasn't been created;
I find that frequently with SuSE, and sometimes have to resort to:

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/

and

http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=cat

who are SuSE enthusiasts who share their hard work in refining and/or
packaging neat stuff for use on the later SUSE distributions.

HTH,

Bayard, n1ho

"Brake for Moose - it can save your life" - NHF&GD



Donald Leslie {74279} <dml at swlmail.msd.ray.com> wrote: I am running Suse and use apt-get for rpm or Yast with the Suse 
repositories. I was asked for a
xdiif/mgdiff for rel4 .

I looked at www.rpmfind.net and found rpms for Suse 9.3 and PLD nothing 
foir RedHat .

I then tried www.fedoratracker.org . This is even worse it finds nothing 
for mgdiff. It actually found nothing for vi or vim. It did find emacs ( 
Do I sense a bias here?).

Where should one look for the latest stuff for red hat

Don
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