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[david_kw]

I've never used yum before.  I found it when I was trying to set the date and the olpc wiki recommended (as super user) running:

yum install rdate

So I checked it out.  Since then I've installed:

yum install gcc
yum install php
yum install httpd
yum install lynx
yum install svn
yum install vim-enhanced

So now I have a c compiler, an apache web server, php, an enhanced version of vim, subversion version control system, and a text-based browser all running. 

By typing

yum list

I see that there are thousands of packages that can be installed.  Has anyone else found fun stuff?  I'm considering openoffice but I've never used it before.

david_kw

[N. Holzschuch]

Just one question: how much does that take of the 1Gb flash drive? (I'm especially curious about the compiler).

I did a "yum install ekiga", so I could have a video-conference system.

[xomaha]

Thunderbird 2.0 installs.

At least in the ship.2 VMware sugar image. So, this means my daughters will be able to have local email against our home IMAP server. Yippee!

XO fan in Omaha
(Nov 12 donor, patiently waiting in anticipation for delivery)

[Eph Zero]

@david_kw: oof ... I find OpenOffice to be dreadfully slow and bloated even on relatively fast systems. I can't imagine what it would be like on the XO.

@N. Holzschuch: Did ekiga work???

[N. Holzschuch]

@N. Holzschuch: Did ekiga work???

Yes. Let me rephrase that : as far as I can tell, yes.

I don't know how to use this VOIP system, but the control panel had the video working, the sound working, everything seemed right. There was no problems or issues whatsoever.

If anyone has more experience with Ekiga and want to experience video-conferencing...

[dialectric]

Is there a simple command line uninstall for yum packages once you've added them?
Or even a complex way?

I installed an audio player with yum but want to remove it and find something with a smaller install size (Audacious was suggested in another thread)

-dialectric

[utshwala]

Is there a simple command line uninstall for yum packages once you've added them?
Or even a complex way?

I installed an audio player with yum but want to remove it and find something with a smaller install size (Audacious was suggested in another thread)

-dialectric

yum erase audioplayer

[david_kw]

@dialectric:

Here is a link to some great yum examples that taught me basically everything I know outside of random testing:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25880

@N. Holzschuch:

One nice feature of yum (at least on olpc) is it tells you how much space it will take before you install it and gives you the option to stop.  

yum info gcc

says it takes about 10M.  I'm currently using 42% of my 1GB.

david_kw

[Gabey8]

I've never used yum before.  I found it when I was trying to set the date and the olpc wiki recommended (as super user) running:

yum install rdate

So I checked it out.  Since then I've installed:

yum install gcc
yum install php
yum install httpd
yum install lynx
yum install svn
yum install vim-enhanced

So now I have a c compiler, an apache web server, php, an enhanced version of vim, subversion version control system, and a text-based browser all running. 

By typing

yum list

I see that there are thousands of packages that can be installed.  Has anyone else found fun stuff?  I'm considering openoffice but I've never used it before.

david_kw

About that "yum install lynx"...

I opened a Terminal activity, entered "su" to switch to root, and entered "yum install lynx". (Minus all the quotation marks, of course.)

Then I entered the command "lynx", both as the regular user and the root user, and both times I got an error message that it could not access .startfile -- at least I think that's what it was.

When I couldn't get it to work, I entered "yum remove lynx" and it uninstalled it.

But I'm annoyed about that darned .startfile. Is there something else I can do, or should have done, to get lynx to work on the XO? I'd really have liked to have that on board.

That and a text-based mail program that can be run in Terminal. Has anyone got any ideas?

[voodoo]

After doing some searching online (i don't have my xo yet), i don't think there's a built-in command line email program? (BUT SET ME STRAIGHT IF I'M WRONG!)

I'm assuming you could download Alpine, an open-source version of PINE which is a command line email program.

Info and download here:
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/


What do others think?

[xomaha]

Re: lynx

You need to use

lynx http://some.url

Lynx by itself on a command line tries to load a default URL described in "startfile".


Re: mail clients

"yum install mutt" works....


Regards,

XO fan in Omaha
(Nov 12 donor, patiently waiting)

[XOXOXO]

yum install lynx works right out of the box for me with:

lynx google.com

I too got the startfile issue when starting lynx without a domain. I don't mind typing lynx google.com though.

[bfayette]

I recommend

yum install mc

Midnight Commander is a pretty good text based file manager/browser/editor.

[bfayette]

Another thing I installed (from an rpm, not yum) is the  minicom terminal emulator.  Works great with a USB serial adapter.  I also installed tcl/tk.  Tcl works, haven't tried Tk.

[bradpitcher]

when I installed ekiga, yum threw errors about running out of memory and failed to run pre- and post-install scripts.  Now when I try to run ekiga it complains of missing config files.  Anyone else run into out-of-memory errors with yum or have a work around?