Which version for RH6.2

Which version for RH6.2

[John J. Bauerly]

Hello;

I am upgrading my system to Red Hat 6.2. Which version of ax25 utilities is 
compatable with this?

John J. Bauerly NW0I

RE: Which version for RH6.2

[Ben Gelb]

If you compile from source, I don't think it makes an ounce of
difference.

You can get the sources at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24545

If you are looking for an rpm, you might have a hard time. As I recall,
RH6.2 uses RPM 3. All of the new RPMs from RedHat are for RPM 4.

I did a quick search on rpmfind.net and found the following RPMs being
listed as part of the PowerTools-6.2 for i386 distro. I think this is
like "add-ons" for RedHat.

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/powertools/6.2/i386/i386/libax25-0.0.7-
2.i386.html

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/powertools/6.2/i386/i386/ax25-tools-0.0
.6-2.i386.html

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/powertools/6.2/i386/i386/ax25-apps-0.0.
4-3.i386.html


OR,

You can avoid the whole RPM mess altogether and use Debian. This is what
I would personally recommend. It has a far superior packaging system,
you just type 

apt-get install ax25-tools 

and it downloads ax25-tools and all the package(s) it depends on (like
libax25) for you, installs them all, and you're set.

But if you like RedHat and RPMs, that's certainly your right.

Hope this helps!

73 de Ben, KF4KJQ

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Subject: Which version for RH6.2

Hello;

I am upgrading my system to Red Hat 6.2. Which version of ax25 utilities
is 
compatable with this?

John J. Bauerly NW0I

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Re: Which version for RH6.2

[M Taylor]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 07:43:50PM -0500, John J. Bauerly wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> I am upgrading my system to Red Hat 6.2. Which version of ax25 utilities is 
> compatable with this?

You know that RedHat 7.3 is the current Red Hat Linux distribution, right?

As long as you install the security updates, fixes, and 2.2.20 kernel it
will work fine, but why do you want an older distribution?

I don't think that ax25 support is maintained for 2.2.x kernels, but I am
not certain. 

-ve1mct

Re: Which version for RH6.2

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:11:25AM +0100, M Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 07:43:50PM -0500, John J. Bauerly wrote:
> > Hello;
> > 
> > I am upgrading my system to Red Hat 6.2. Which version of ax25 utilities is 
> > compatable with this?
> 
> You know that RedHat 7.3 is the current Red Hat Linux distribution, right?
> 
> As long as you install the security updates, fixes, and 2.2.20 kernel it
> will work fine, but why do you want an older distribution?
> 
> I don't think that ax25 support is maintained for 2.2.x kernels, but I am
> not certain. 
> 

AX25 will work with 2.2, but in any case ax25-utils is obsolete for
either 2.2 or 2.4 kernels.  Use ax25-apps, ax25-tools and libax25
instead (see the latest AX25-HOWTO).

Bob, N7XY