[R-sig-Fedora] installing RKWard on RHEL

[Christos Hatzis]

Thank you Marc.

To be clear for future reference, binaries packaged for Fedora distro's
are not to be installed on RHEL and vice versa.  Same holds for rpm's?

Thanks.
-Christos

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 16:31 -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
Nuvera Biosciences
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