[R-sig-Fedora] installing RKWard on RHEL

[Marc Schwartz]

On Dec 23, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install RKWard to an RHEL workstation.  I tried
>
> $ yum install rkward
>
> but that did not work as it could not find the package in the standard
> repositories.  The RKWard project page suggests that
>
> You can also find the build (of all versions of RKWard) at koji and
> other information regarding the package at pkgdb
>
> Is there a way to install the package on RHEL or the above resources  
> are
> only built for Fedora?
>
> Thank you.
> -Christos


Christos,

The EPEL is the yum based repo for RHEL and more info is here:

   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

That being said, I did not see the package listed in Bodhi for RHEL,  
only for FC11 and FC12, which are the currently supported versions of  
Fedora. F10 went EOL in the past week.

The Bodhi link is here:

   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/rkward

The same for Koji:

   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4881

The RKWard site does not list pre-built binaries being available for  
RHEL, only Fedora within the domain of RH distros:

   http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Binaries_and_Build_Scripts

Thus, you will likely have to install from source for the time being.  
Information on that path is here:

   http://rkward.sourceforge.net/

HTH,

Marc Schwartz