On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 09:36:28AM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > on my RH7.3 when I installed some 'additions' these often came as RPMs > from dag.wieers.com; > so, I would look on dag.wieers.com pages to find desired > revision/distribution, then 'wget somefile' then 'rpm somefile' etc, etc > > I'm now setting up Centos 4.4, and, I'm reading some of the docs; > > so, is this the general idea: > I should add 'dag.wieers.com' to my yum setup,
There's often a 'seed' rpm that does that for you > then, insted of 'wget/rpm' > dynamic duo I just 'yum install somefile', > is this what I should be doing ? sure, except fedora and centos has a much larger range of software through 'extras' see http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=37 > and, is it like 'yum install clamav', with yum picking appropriate latest > rpms and dependencies, etc ? yum installs dependencies if that's what you're asking Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
