[WBEL-users] mc RPM for WBEL anyone?

[Scott Silva]

Mike B. spake the following on 9/27/2006 9:20 PM:
> At 9/27/2006 08:50 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> Mike B. wrote:
>>> I've been using RH-7.2 for years, but am looking into switching to
>>> WBEL to get something a bit more modern (I've got WBEL 3 CDs at the
>>> moment...I know 4 is out, but 3 is what I have at the moment).
>>
>> not sure if you are aware of the fact that EL3 went into Maint mode a
>> few months back... if you are doing a new install you really should
>> use EL4 ( unless, you have some linux-2.6 issues )
> 
> I will...I'm just looking at what I already had handy.  Cheap Bytes will
> get an order for the WBEL 4 CDs before I install on my actual server.
> 
> I don't know enough about linux-2.6 to know if I have issues...what sort
> of things might they be?  My server needs Sendmail, DNS (for a caching
> server for my LAN...the ISM hosts the "real" nameserver), POP, IMAP,
> Apache (local and development use, not for the world at large), Perl 5.x
> (for CGI mostly), X (so I can access it from other machines and have
> more than a telnet interface), some sort of spam filter, and not much
> more other than the usual commands and utilities (like YUM, RPM, Elm,
> etc.).
> 
>>> I've installed it on a spare machine, and in playing with it I find
>>> that one of the more useful command line apps, Midnight Commander
>>> (mc), is missing!  What gives?  Has everyone gone GUI or something?
>>
>> the mc rpm from EL4 builds and works fine on EL3, you should be able
>> to just grab the el4 src.rpm and rebuild on the machine itself.
> 
> I'll look for it.  The one for RHEL 4 from the mc home site is the one I
> had problems with though.
> 
> 
> Thanks to the other two responders who suggested the RH 9 binary RPM. 
> I'll look into that too.  I don't need "latest and greatest"...I just
> need "works".  The one I got with RH 7.2 is fine with me, though I doubt
> it will work as-is on WBEL 3.  This ain't OpenVMS! ;-)
> 
> -- Mike B.
Midnight Commander hasn't really changed in a while(the current source is from
mid-2005). And it doesn't have very many dependencies.

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