One of those very short postings. I created a metapackage rpm for the Open Office 3.2.0 suite in aLinux and passed it through the contribs section of aLinux.
Should have Open Office in aLinux soon enough.
Update: Ok, it’s now in the contribs directory in the aLinux site (ibiblio): http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/peanut/contribs/RPMS/COMMUNITY/Clint/
Funny, I see my last rpm contributions [...]
Ok, ok… you might wonder, what’s a blog post about William Shatner making a social network doing here?
See the tag line of my site? “Open Source, Operating Systems, Offtopic Stuff!”. This definitely counts as “Offtopic Stuff!”. And I’m a big Star Trek fan – well, TOS and NG, as well as some [...]
I received a question from an email on how to create your own yum repository.
I am basing it on Moblin/Meego, but should mostly work on Fedora/RedHat too.
I am assuming that you have already installed the development tools of Moblin in your installed Moblin distribution by using this command:
sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
To start, we install [...]
Another one of those very very short posts. If you have moblin installed on your netbook, and want to develop rpms on it, you can type in this command:
sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
It should install all tools necessary for basic Moblin development. Ciao.
Another short post.
I added some forums to my blog. Nothing much – if you have any questions, suggestions, or just want to talk away, feel free to do so.
From a comment in one of my blog articles, WINE 1.1.40 is now available on the official aLinux rpm repository. Please update your aLinux 12.9 through synaptic now!

