shauerpms

howto

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
(CentOS/taolinux/etc. I don't have "real" RHEL boxes so dont know accurately how it should configure, but using up2date)

Since older RHEL3's yum 2.0.8 dont support smarter configuration like newer distributions, you need configure shauerpms manually.

# rpm --import http://paavon.iki.fi/shauerpms/pub/RPM-GPG-KEY-shauer-paavon

and edit /etc/yum.conf with our favourite editor and add following lines end of file:
[shauerpms]
name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - shauerpms
baseurl = http://paavon.iki.fi/shauerpms/pub/rhel/3/i386/
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
And then it should work.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
# rpm -Uvh http://paavon.iki.fi/shauerpms/pub/rhel/4/i386/shauer-release-1.0-2.el4.shauer.i386.rpm

Fedora Core 4
# rpm -Uvh http://paavon.iki.fi/shauerpms/pub/fedora/4/i386/shauer-release-1.0-2.fc4.shauer.i386.rpm

Fedora Core 5
# rpm -Uvh http://paavon.iki.fi/shauerpms/pub/fedora/5/i386/shauer-release-1.0-2.fc5.shauer.i386.rpm

Fedora Core 6
# rpm -Uvh http://paavon.iki.fi/shauerpms/pub/fedora/6/i386/shauer-release-1.0-2.fc6.shauer.i386.rpm

And then install something, like sl :)
# yum install sl

And finally you should see something like
Installed: sl.i386 0:3.03-5.el4.shauer
Complete!
Uninstall:

# yum remove shauer-release

or for RHEL3, remove or comment out shauerpms' lines from /etc/yum.conf

Last update: 8.03.2012 00:00:20