[wplug] Fedora Core 4 Regular ISOs vs SRPMS

Chester R. Hosey Chester.Hosey at gianteagle.com
Wed Jul 6 09:30:58 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:27 -0400, Greg Simkins wrote:
> I was looking at the download page for ISO images for Fedora Core 4
> for i386.  There appear to be 2 versions:
>  
> FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso or FC4-i386-disc1.iso.  I presume the former
> has something to do with the Redhat Package Manager, but I don't know
> which to download to create bootable CDs.  
>  
> Which is better?
>  
> Thanks, 
>  
> Greg Simkins

SRPM stands for Source RPM -- meaning it contains the source code to a
given package/program. You likely want the compiled versions. Go for
FC4-i386-disc1.iso.

Chet


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