[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 and other software?
Dan Stoner
dstoner at flmnh.ufl.edu
Fri Nov 3 21:46:52 UTC 2006
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I just installed CentOS 4.4 on my laptop, having good experience with
> Debian, Fedora Core 5, and RHEL4. I really like 4.4's overall
> appearance (meshing of RHEL4 and FC5), but what I have yet to figure out
> is how to access repositories for applications that are not part of the
> default install, such as ncftp. I invoked and updated yum, but it had
> no idea.
ncftp is out there somewhere, but as the other reply indicated, there
might be better options than ncftp.
<snip>
> Am I missing something with available packages?
For the packages that are not included with the core distro or extras
repos, I suggest adding the rpmforge repository:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
Install and use the RHEL 4 repo for CentOS 4.
Dan Stoner
Network Administrator
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
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