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| Thread ID: 69375 | 2006-05-30 09:47:00 | Red hat Linux 8 applications on Fedora Core 5 | technicianxp (6463) | Press F1 |
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| 459141 | 2006-05-30 09:47:00 | Hey everyone I'm in a hurry so I'll make this brief for now and update it in the morning. I have found a few applications on the HP site for the Proliant ML330e server series which I need to run under Linux. However, the applications are only supported on Red Hat 7 through to Red Hat 8. I am willing to run Fedora core on the server, provided that these apps will run on it too (to see which apps I'm talking about please go to h18023.www1.hp.com). Can anyone advise me on if these applications will work under Fedora core 5? |
technicianxp (6463) | ||
| 459142 | 2006-05-30 09:58:00 | They might - but you would be lucky - an awful lot has happened since RedHat8 (like 6 versions!). | johnd (85) | ||
| 459143 | 2006-05-30 13:10:00 | Hey everyone I'm in a hurry so I'll make this brief for now and update it in the morning. I have found a few applications on the HP site for the Proliant ML330e server series which I need to run under Linux. However, the applications are only supported on Red Hat 7 through to Red Hat 8. I am willing to run Fedora core on the server, provided that these apps will run on it too (to see which apps I'm talking about please go to h18023.www1.hp.com). Can anyone advise me on if these applications will work under Fedora core 5? You will need to have a good look at the full contents (not just the ones listed, but also dependencies/libraries etc) in the software pack, and compare them to those in Fedora. I don't know how the RH/Fedora package manager does that but it should. More than one different versions of the same apps/libraries (i.e., old and new) can confuse Linux terribly sometimes. Things start not working all of a sudden. Why not give it a try anyway? Just use a spare machine/partition and see. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 459144 | 2006-05-30 14:25:00 | It does depend on which software you're wanting to run, some software I see there I know has open specifications, so it's quite possible these have been developed further and may not necessarily be developed by Compaq/HP anymore or even updated on their site like it seems. Things like the device drivers have most likely been worked on, like the ATA Raid, SCSI, Smart Array, Ethernet etc and their configuration tools for them. FC5 can still run compatibility libraries for older software, but I'm positive you'll be able to find newer versions of the software somewhere else. If you find the .src.rpm, then you'll be able to build your own package for it. Cheers, KK |
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