- From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:03:36 +0200
- To: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org, "Jeff Sabarese" <learn@novicenotes.net>
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 13:15, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Jeff Sabarese wrote:
> > Dear Amaya support:
> >
> > I've used Yum to install Amaya amaya-9.5-1.fc5 (the fc5 version which
> > i obtained via
> > http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?submit=Search+...&query=
> >amaya as per the suggestion at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html
>
> That's not an RPM, it's a list of RPM's. Which one did you actually
> install?
>
> I'm also finding the search tool at rpm.pbone.net to actually work better,
> and provide more of the information I need about RPM's.
>
> Also, if you look at the Amaya SRPM's, you see some oddness where depending
> on the particular graphics tools used, it's either version 8.x or 9.y. I
> don't know why Amaya has this weird alternate numbering, but it's been this
> way for years.
In the future, 8.x will be version x with the old style interface and 9.x will
be version x with the new style interface.
We encourage people to use 9.x versions, but some users prefer to continue
with 8.x versions for efficiency.
Irène.
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