[As-users] Fedora 9 RPMS - New Additions to Repo
Jeff Krebs (jkrebs@tconl.com)
Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:36:39 -0500
The AfterStep Applets Repository has FINALLY been updated for Fedora 9.
Instructions for YUM installation can be found at:
http://www.afterstep.org/download.php?show=RPMS
As usual, these Fedora 9 RPMS can be found at:
ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/stable/rpms/RPMS/fc/9/i386
Source RPMS that should work with most versions of Fedora
(Core 3+) and other distros can be found at:
ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/stable/rpms/SRPMS
Feedback via the AfterStep User Mailing List is appreciated.
Fedora 9 AppletRPMS Notes:
Fedora 9 - Overall
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Wow! The install went smoothly. Things appear to be must faster than
under Fedora 8. OpenOffice is much more responsive, and FireFox 3 (Beta
5) is a real scorcher. I'm really pleased with firefox's compatibility
with web pages; many pages that were broken or functioned in odd ways
work well now. My only gripe is the lack of FireFox themes, but I can
live without them for now.
Other than the rxvt-unicode issue listed below, I'm very pleased to have
moved from Fedora 8 to version 9.
rxvt-unicode and aterm
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Both rxvt-unicode-9.02 and aterm-1.0.1 fail to build, giving the error
"sys/stropts.h: No such file or directory". I'm guessing this is a gcc
issue of sorts. Both terms are posted on bugzilla.redhat.com as
"failing to build from source".
The current rxvt-unicode from Fedora 9 installs, but will not run (with
AfterStep, at least). I tried installing the Fedora 8 version from the
AppletRPM repo to no avail.
Xterm installs and works, but it's still... xterm. Mrxvt (from Fedora)
installs and runs, but transparency doesn't work with AfterStep.
If anyone has any ideas on why these packages won't currently build,
your help would be greatly appreciated.
libical, parcellite, and stalonetray
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All three applications are now included in Fedora's own Release 8
and 9 repositories.
I will leave these out of the Applets-RPMS repo unless this changes.
Temperature.app
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No clue what's up with this, but it fails to build. It's probably a gcc
issue (newer versions seem less forgiving on older apps). This is a
nice, read-able, and simple Applet. Too bad.
wmalms, wmsensormon, wmtemp
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Starting with Fedora 9, lm_sensors is defaulted to the new 3.0.0 series.
This latest version relies solely on the drivers included with the 2.6.x
Linux kernel. This also means, quoting from the www.lm-sensors.org
website, "Most third party monitoring applications do not yet work with
the library in this package". So true.
The result of this change is that the wmalms, wmsensormon, and wmtemp
Applets fail to build, complaining about not finding "sensors/chips.h";
"chips.h" was included included in lm_sensors < 3.0.0, but not in the
current versions.
The good news is that wmcpum.app still works splendidly, and is a fine
Applet. It just needs to be pointed at /sys/bus/platform/devices/
rather than /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ (at least on my system).
For those desiring to use wmalms, wmsensormon, or wmtemp, you will need
to install an older version of lm_sensors and rebuild the SRPMS provided
at ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/stable/rpms/SRPMS/ . For Fedora 9, ATRPMS
provides the "legacy" lm_sensors at
http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/lm_sensors/ .
About the AfterStep Applets Repository:
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This repository contains AfterStep, aterm, rxvt-unicode and over 60
Wharf/Dockapps for use with AfterStep and WindowMaker.
In addition, there are some added utilities that work well under
AfterStep.
Your humble packager,
Jeff Krebs
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