Certainly one of my problems is that I'm a "Windows person" whose only 
contact with Linux is through the OLPC.

I don't know about yum as a method of updating the OLPC, and I don't know of 
anywhere on the OLPC Wiki where this is described. Nor for that matter, to 
look in "fedora" or "debian" for an update to Csound. (I've just now 
discovered a reference to yum in the OLPC manual, p.130. OLPC documentation 
is both scant and spotty.)

For people like me (and there must be others trying to be involved in OLPC 
things), it would be very helpful to post such basic instructions somewhere 
on csounds.com or csound.sourceforge.net.

OTOH I've no idea what these instructions should be. Victor?

Art Hunkins

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From: "Anthony Kozar" 
To: "New Csound Developer list" 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Web site and csound5_10.bin.tgz ?


>I can always link to the most recent version available on the front page as
> I do with other packages.  Currently, the RPM, x86_64, and Mac OS 9 
> packages
> are older than 5.10.
>
> If people are supposed to update olpcsound with yum though, then perhaps I
> should not create links to the files.  I'd be happy to post the update
> instructions for OLPC (and for Debian) if someone could provide me with
> them.
>
> Anthony
>
> victor wrote on 2/27/09 6:24 PM:
>
>> There is no 5.10 package for OLPC yet. The reason being that the
>> soname bump will require some work in updating the package, which
>> I will need to do.
>>
>> You can get newer builds of olpcound-5.08 via fedora (yum) , where
>> eventually you would get the new olpcsound.
>
>
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Hi Art,

Package management and repositories, is one of the great things about
linux distributions. You generally don't have to go to a program's
website, download and install, but you install from repositories using
the package manager. For Fedora (and XO), the package manager is yum.
There are graphical interfaces, but it is a command line program so it
can be scripted, run remotely, etc.
To use yum, you usually do something like:

yum install packagename

if the package is in the repositories, yum will get it (with its
dependencies) and install it.
If you google for yum, you'll find more details.

OTOH I'm not sure the state of Csound in the XO repositories.
But you can do for example:

yum install firefox

and then type "firefox" in the Terminal activity.

Cheers,
Andrés



On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Art Hunkins  wrote:
> Certainly one of my problems is that I'm a "Windows person" whose only
> contact with Linux is through the OLPC.
>
> I don't know about yum as a method of updating the OLPC, and I don't know of
> anywhere on the OLPC Wiki where this is described. Nor for that matter, to
> look in "fedora" or "debian" for an update to Csound. (I've just now
> discovered a reference to yum in the OLPC manual, p.130. OLPC documentation
> is both scant and spotty.)
>
> For people like me (and there must be others trying to be involved in OLPC
> things), it would be very helpful to post such basic instructions somewhere
> on csounds.com or csound.sourceforge.net.
>
> OTOH I've no idea what these instructions should be. Victor?
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Kozar" 
> To: "New Csound Developer list" 
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Web site and csound5_10.bin.tgz ?
>
>
>>I can always link to the most recent version available on the front page as
>> I do with other packages.  Currently, the RPM, x86_64, and Mac OS 9
>> packages
>> are older than 5.10.
>>
>> If people are supposed to update olpcsound with yum though, then perhaps I
>> should not create links to the files.  I'd be happy to post the update
>> instructions for OLPC (and for Debian) if someone could provide me with
>> them.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> victor wrote on 2/27/09 6:24 PM:
>>
>>> There is no 5.10 package for OLPC yet. The reason being that the
>>> soname bump will require some work in updating the package, which
>>> I will need to do.
>>>
>>> You can get newer builds of olpcound-5.08 via fedora (yum) , where
>>> eventually you would get the new olpcsound.
>>
>>
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>> CA
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>> Enterprise
>> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source
>> participation
>> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code:
>> SFAD
>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H
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>> Csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/csound-devel
>
>
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