raspberry pi fedora what software can be installed?

[okppko]

I know raspberry pi is arm. And that i386 and amd64 distros must be modefied for arm. But when fedora arm for raspberry pi has been installed, can you then install all linux programs on it? Or only linux programs made ready for fedora arm, or already part of the distro?
Thanks.

 

[Alabalcho]

This was released a week or so ago - there's Fedora clone there. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4100
As for apps - the repositories installed should support Arm, of course.

 

[okppko]

This was released a week or so ago - there's Fedora clone there. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4100
As for apps - the repositories installed should support Arm, of course.

Thank you. So if you fx want to install google earth from their website, you cannot download a linux package and install it on arm fedora?

 

[Alabalcho]

If there is Google Earth (or anything else) precompiled for Raspberry Pi in Fedora repositories, you will be able to download and install it. It's entirely different question whether it will run at all (I doubt) on such limited hardware.

 

[Chris Tyler]

I know raspberry pi is arm. And that i386 and amd64 distros must be modefied for arm. But when fedora arm for raspberry pi has been installed, can you then install all linux programs on it? Or only linux programs made ready for fedora arm, or already part of the distro?
Thanks.

There are about 10,000 source software packages (producing about 20,000 binary RPM packages) compiled for Pidora 18 (the Fedora Remix for the Pi) - this is most of the Fedora package collection. About 800 of these binary RPMs are included in the image; any others you want can be installed over the internet using the "yum" command or the graphical software package tool. For example, if you want the Apache httpd webserver, you can just type "yum install httpd" and you'll get it.

 

[okppko]

I know raspberry pi is arm. And that i386 and amd64 distros must be modefied for arm. But when fedora arm for raspberry pi has been installed, can you then install all linux programs on it? Or only linux programs made ready for fedora arm, or already part of the distro?
Thanks.

There are about 10,000 source software packages (producing about 20,000 binary RPM packages) compiled for Pidora 18 (the Fedora Remix for the Pi) - this is most of the Fedora package collection. About 800 of these binary RPMs are included in the image; any others you want can be installed over the internet using the "yum" command or the graphical software package tool. For example, if you want the Apache httpd webserver, you can just type "yum install httpd" and you'll get it.

If a software package is present as rpm, then it can be installed? About all the packages in pidora/fedora 18 pi, must they be compiled one by one, or is it an automated task, that can be done in one movement? Thanks.

 

[Alabalcho]

Packages are already precompiled in their respective repositories - Pidora should know where to look for and pull from packages for Raspberry Pi. So, as long as a package is there (which almost means all the dependencies are also there) it can be installed on RPi.

Yesterday (out of curiosity) I installed Google Earth on run-of-the-mill Kubuntu PC. It needed so many additional packages (and runs slugish on dual-core Pentium 3GHz) that I doubt it will ever run (even with custom install) on RPi.