pang seangloon wrote:
1.What is the difference between -.src.rpm and
-.i386.rpm.
For *all* programs - not just Ethereal - *.src.rpm is an RPM that
contains the SouRCe code of the application, and *.i386.rpm is an RPM
that contains binary code (executable program, etc.) for the Intel 386
and processors compatible with it (later Intel 486, Pentium, Celeron,
and Xeon, AMD, etc.). compiled from the source code. (Those processors
are often called "x86" processors, or maybe "x86-64" if they have the
AMD 64-bit extensions, which "AMD64" and Intel "EM64T" processors have.)
You can't run the source code - you have to compile it into binaries,
first, so, unless you have a reason to want to see the source code (to
see what's in it, or to modify it and compile it), you don't need the
.src.rpm file. If you have an ordinary PC (meaning it has an x86 or
x86-64 processor), you *can* run the "i386" binary code from the
.i386.rpm file, if that RPM is compatible with your system.
2.Is it possible I can download the 0.10.11 version
for my Fedora Core.
It's possible if Fedora Core includes 0.10.11. Fedora Core comes from
Red Hat, not us, and we're not currently building RPMs of Ethereal, so
you'd have to check whether there are RPMs for Fedora Core from Red
Hat/the Fedora project or from elsewhere (check www.rpm.net, for example).
