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10-30-2008, 07:52 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2008
Posts: 7
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Problem in installing SDL on fedora 5
Hello all,
I am quite new to linux and facing some basic doubts regarding SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer)installation on Fedora core 5 (i386) machine.
I tried 2 ways:
1. Downloaded "SDL-devel-1.2.13-1.i386.rpm" from url "http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php" and tried to install.
Error: When tried to install, it fails during "retrieving software information" phase.
2. Using yum. But, it seems that yum on my machine is not configured properly. Because: in file, fedora-core.repo there are foll. two URLs which seems to be outdated.
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baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
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I dont know how exactly to fix this yum issue. I thought, giving the correct/valid baseurl and mirrorlist should do. But, I am having a hard time to fix this up. My final aim is to just install SDL and move towards my main project.
Folks, request you to specify the exact steps to install SDL on fedora,core5 machine.
Thanks in advance!!
Best Greetings,
nsm
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10-30-2008, 10:34 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2006
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Support for FC5 was dropped several years ago. Fedora only has about 13 months of support for any one version. After that there are no updates of any kind. The repos dry up pretty quickly after support is discontinued. Your best bet would be to look at Centos 5.2. Centos is RHEL with the logos removed. It is free to download/update and has a five year support life.
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10-30-2008, 10:39 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2008
Location: I live where I'm currently standing on
Distribution: fedora, opensuse
Posts: 34
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why not install fedora 9? or the incoming fedora 10...
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10-30-2008, 10:53 PM
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If he installs F9 he will be in the exact same position in about 7-8 months(F10 and he is looking at 13-14 months).
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10-31-2008, 08:36 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2008
Posts: 7
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Hello all,
Thanks for your prompt response! Aah...I wish, I wanted to upgrade to latest fedora version since I joined the project. But, my project uses device drivers which are tightly coupled with Fedora-5 and its not possible to change that code, as it is a lot of work. And I dont have any say in it  . So, I got to make it work on Fedora-5 and I believe there got to be some way and I need to figure that out. My problem has boiled down to installing SDL on Fedora-5 and would like to know if its feasible or not? If yes..great..how? If no..why  ?? What approach would you like to suggest in order to proceed further?
Once again..thanks for your time. Will wait for inputs from you..
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10-31-2008, 11:00 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Toulon (France)
Distribution: FEDORA CORE
Posts: 493
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Why not trying to install it through its sources?
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11-03-2008, 10:58 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2008
Posts: 7
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Hey,
sorry to reply late..was out of town. Ok, I will try to install from source files. I just hope, I will be able to resolve dependencies in that case.
Hey Lazlo and other senior folks...One question:
I am curious to understand FC5 state in a better way. As I understand, FC5 support is stopped and corresponding repos have dried out. So, does this mean, I no longer can configure yum on FC5 to install something? There is no way to redirect yum to function it properly on FC5 now?
Thanks in advance for your time!
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11-03-2008, 12:56 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,709
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mixing NEW and OLD versions of the same code on a machine can cause big problems
if you install the NEW sdl code on top of the OLD code in /usr/ you will most likely fubar part of the system with all of the dependencies.
make a install folder that is NOT in the system path
for example /usr/opt/mycode
build ALL the new code using the prifix tag
Code:
./configure --prefix=/usr/opt/mycode
you will also need to export the new include path and the lib path and the pkgeconfig path
Last edited by John VV; 11-03-2008 at 12:58 PM.
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11-03-2008, 01:05 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2006
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IF you can find repos that still have the software you should be able to redirect yum to them. The trouble is that those repos are few and far between. Fedora 10 will be released late this month. This means that you will be five (5) releases behind current. Now just to get the point across, think about backing up five versions of windows(vista,xp,98,95,3.11). So in comparison you are looking for support of windows 3.0. How many current version of software do you think will run properly on 3.0? Even if you compile it, there are going to be issues because things have changed so much over time.
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11-03-2008, 02:09 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,709
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you may find a still working one someplace in this list ??
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/pub...t/EPEL/5/i386/
but i do not think any of them will have sdl sdl-devel,sdl_mixer sdl_mixer-devel,sdl_image sdl_image-devel sdl_ttf sdl_ttf-devel...
you may need to go to sdl's cvs/svn page and check out the OLD code
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11-03-2008, 11:29 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2008
Posts: 7
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Ok..great!! I got your points! Yes, that makes sense. So, upgrading to FC9/FC10 will ease installation of SDL and in any case, thats the best way to go forward. I had been given a code that runs on Ubuntu,makes use of SDL 1.2 and I was expected to make it work on FC5. But, it seems FC5 is really the obsolete piece now! (like windows 3.0.. btw that was gud one!)
Ok then, thats going to be a major decision for our project. Lets see. Thanks for your valuable comments. Will keep you posted.
Thanks!
~nsm
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