On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 19:35, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote:
For a few programs that don't seem to be (readily) available for
Centos I just take some steps to create/compile my own rpm. Sometimes all it
takes is a simple rpmbuild --rebuild command on a Fedora rpm, sometimes it
takes a
I have been using Fedora on my home desktop for close to an year, and
I am happy with it, nevertheless I am considering switching to a
slower-moving distro.
CentOS + EPEL put together have less packages than Fedora. Moreover
RPM Fusion has fewer packages for EL than for Fedora. I am wondering
how
I have been using Fedora on my home desktop for close to an year, and
I am happy with it, nevertheless I am considering switching to a
slower-moving distro.
I followed the same path a few years ago, and I'm very happy with it.
So, welcome!
CentOS + EPEL put together have less packages than
At Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:31:18 + CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I have been using Fedora on my home desktop for close to an year, and
I am happy with it, nevertheless I am considering switching to a
slower-moving distro.
CentOS + EPEL put together have less packages than
On 6 November 2010 12:00, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote:
I use CentOS + EPEL as a base and include specific packages from
RPMForge, using includepkgs in the /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
file.
For example my (very personal) package list from RPMForge:
Thanks a lot for the
In particular I had never heard of RPMForge, I will check it.
Also check ElRepo for up to date drivers (e.g. NVIDIA):
http://elrepo.org
More generally the CentOS wiki is a very helpful resource, e.g.:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
On 6 November 2010 12:57, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
RPMForge has a lot of packages (but be careful!). rpmbone has more.
Careful about what?
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On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:31, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been using Fedora on my home desktop for close to an year, and
I am happy with it, nevertheless I am considering switching to a
slower-moving distro.
CentOS + EPEL put together have less packages than Fedora. Moreover
RPM
RPMForge has a lot of packages (but be careful!). rpmbone has more.
Careful about what?
Third-party repos sometimes conflict.
For example if you activate both EPEL and RPMForge fully, it is very
likely that your perl-* packages will be a complete mess.
That's why I personally followed the
On 6 November 2010 13:22, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any specific applications that you need but are not
available in the CentOS repos, or just in general? My experience is
that I had to build Anki [1], as no current version was available for
either CentOS or Fedora.
I
On 6 November 2010 13:57, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote:
Third-party repos sometimes conflict.
For example if you activate both EPEL and RPMForge fully, it is very
likely that your perl-* packages will be a complete mess.
That's why I personally followed the approach of enabling
At Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:15:20 + CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 6 November 2010 12:57, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
RPMForge has a lot of packages (but be careful!). Â rpmbone has more.
Careful about what?
Conflicts with EPel and 'interesting' dependency
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:31:18 +
Piscium wrote:
So I wonder what do other CentOS users do in a similar situation? Is
it possible to get a Fedora binary package and install it? What about
getting a Fedora source package, building and installing it? Is there
any other possibility?
For a few
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