[LUNI] A little lost with Redhat 4.0 ES

Ramin K ramin-list at badapple.net
Tue Oct 17 12:54:19 CDT 2006


	I built http://jumpcut.com entirely on Gentoo which I've been using for 
the past four years. I'm was comfortable with Gentoo and it allowed us 
to easily install new versions of common packages without too much 
trouble or having to build packages which probably saved me two months 
of time... mostly because I suck at building them. Now that we've been 
purchased by Yahoo! I need to transition over to Redhat 4.0. Right now 
I'm just trying to get the environment setup and some of our custom 
software tested. Having been out of the Redhat game (I think 7.3 was 
really the last one I actually administered) awhile I've got a few 
questions.

1. Where are all the packages?
	Looking for things like imagemagick, lame, ffmpeg, mplayer, etc. 
up2date -l doesn't really find anything which seems odd. Is this some 
channel problem, do I need to setup some yum thing, just track all these 
down individually, or build them myself.

2. Can I get new versions?
	Mysql 5, Apache 2.2, and PHP 5.1 would be really nice if they exist 
somewhere.

3. Is there some nice web page that tells me all this?
	I've been poking around RHN, but haven't found a "you already know 
Linux, here are all the Redhat-ism shortcuts" page.

Ramin


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