Install CentOS 7 packages in CentOS 8 ?
by taylorkh from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5DGNE)
gnome-commander relies on some obsolete, depreciated packages such as gnome-vfs. The maintainer is actively working on upgrading out of this situation but apparently there is a LOT to do. gnome-commander can not be built on Ubuntu 20.04 nor Mint 20 as gnome-vfs and a few other bits are not available in the Upuntu 20.04 vintage repos. Except it can. It is a simple matter of adding the 18.04 Universe repo to bring in the necessary packages.
Arch/Manjaro via the AUR repo will build the required supporting packages from scratch as needed. How exactly I do not know but it works like magic!
Which brings me to the CentOS et.al. family. gnome-commander will build on CentOS 7. I do not believe CentOS 8 has the necessary packages to built gnome-commander. It has been a while since I tried. I am downloading a CentOS 8 image as I type this - and will be downloading after I have finished typing this :(
My question is... can I install packages such as gnome-vfs2-devel from the CentOS 7 vintage repos (epel I think) into CentOS 8? I think the answer is no as the package name has the OS version. e.g. gnome-vfs2-devel-2.24.4-14.el7.x86_64.rpm
Can I build CentOS 8 packages from CentOS 7 source?
TIA,
Ken
Arch/Manjaro via the AUR repo will build the required supporting packages from scratch as needed. How exactly I do not know but it works like magic!
Which brings me to the CentOS et.al. family. gnome-commander will build on CentOS 7. I do not believe CentOS 8 has the necessary packages to built gnome-commander. It has been a while since I tried. I am downloading a CentOS 8 image as I type this - and will be downloading after I have finished typing this :(
My question is... can I install packages such as gnome-vfs2-devel from the CentOS 7 vintage repos (epel I think) into CentOS 8? I think the answer is no as the package name has the OS version. e.g. gnome-vfs2-devel-2.24.4-14.el7.x86_64.rpm
Can I build CentOS 8 packages from CentOS 7 source?
TIA,
Ken