Lanny Marcus spake the following on 7/27/2007 9:47 AM:> I was able to install the kdeedu RPM, from the Fedora Core 3 Install
> DVD, without any problem, on my CentOS 4.4 box and KStars is up and
> running and has been updated. :-)
>
> The bad news is that I didn't learn anything, by doing it this quick
> and simple way, so now I'm going to begin reading about creating my own
> RPMs.
>
> When I get the CentOS 5.0 install DVD, that will be another issue
> for getting KStars installed. Thanks to those who responded! KStars
> is a very powerful and a very elegant program, for anyone interested
> in Astronomy. Lanny
You can get Fedora 3 src rpms for Centos 4 and Fedora 6 srpms for Centos 5.
Then it can be as simple as rpmbuild --rebuild bla-bla-.src.rpm.
It can also be difficult if other dependencies creep in. But the rpmbuild
process should warn you.
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