[Novalug] CentOS, Fedora, and rpms

Jean Figarella jeanfiga@gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 16:13:50 EST 2007


On one of my workstations at home, running fedora 7, all of these packages
can be found and install via yum.

These are some of the third party repo I have installed:

http://www.ezplanetone.com/
http://freshrpms.net/

--Jean

On Dec 31, 2007 3:32 PM, Beartooth <karhunhammas@lserv.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Stephen Chapman wrote:
>
> > not to be an elitist or anything but ... What is CentOS
> > missing?? during install you can pretty much choose
> > everything...  and the things that are there.  about 90% of the
> > dependencies are already there so all you have to do with the
> > source is a make and a make install.... is that the part you
> > are not sure about... compiling packages??
>
>        I don't risk (or take the time) doing compile, make, or
> any of that highfalutin sophisticated stuff -- I can trash the
> occasional machine easily enough without. I never even take
> tarballs, if I can somehow avoid them.
>
>        I got the CentOS DVD; installed 5.1; installed EPEL on
> it; ran yum update; ran pirut and went through it group by group;
> ran yum clean all, rpm --rebuilddb, and yum update again.
>
>        Of the things I use constantly all day, or at least very
> often, I still lacked alpine, brasero, Dillo, epiphany, galeon,
> pan, and seamonkey.
>
>        So I did a little googling, and soon found myself looking
> mainly at Dag Wieers's site. I took the latest best rpms I could
> find for x86, with preference first for RHEL (5 over 4), and then
> had to take some from Fedora; and several of them were far from
> current.
>
>        I got most of them, in some form; I don't have Alpine
> yet, only because I haven't gotten around to it yet. (I'm very
> used to getting Pine and Opera, and yum install to meet their
> dependencies.)
>
>        I still lack brasero, epiphany, galeon, and seamonkey.
> All I could get for seamonkey was a tarball, and I'm in process
> of reading up on how to handle that. Epiphany and Galeon failed
> rpm -ivh -- and you failed to find their dependencies; I suppose
> I'll have to hunt those down, on Dag or elsewhere. (Yes, I did
> find the current morph, and shouldn't call it Dag any more --
> rpmforge or some such ...)
>
>        Under the last two or three Fedora releases, brasero and
> k3b have each succeeded at times when the other didn't, both at
> blanking old RW media and at burning new that would actually do
> installs -- both from the same .ISO. Go figure.
>
>        I use Epiphany and Galeon many times every day, and have
> sites I keep open all the time on each. I also treat Epiphany as
> my expendable browser: i.e., when Dillo (my default) or even
> Opera fails a URL, I go to Epiphany instead of tweaking my
> defenses.
>
>        Related topic: I have huge sets of bookmarks, especially
> for Opera (where I keep my master stash) from different machines.
> I've been wanting to merge them for the last couple years,
> preferably without sending them out to some external site. This
> may be a good time to tackle that job. Any suggestions?
>
>        Anybody happen to know sources for Brasero, Epiphany,
> Galeon, and Seamonkey that don't cost an extra day chasing down
> dependencies? (I'm not even asking about kasehakaze!)
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
> Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
> What do they know of country, who only country know?
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