[CentOS] Where to download rpm packages for centos?

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Thu Sep 17 15:14:38 UTC 2009


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>> I am looking for some user level packages, such as icewm, openoffice.
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> icewm? You logon through the terminal and so can choose your window
> manager? Otherwise, you can more or less forget it...

Oy, as they say, vey. I just went from opensuse 10.3 to centos 5.3.
Building icewm was a *royal* pain. There were a number of libraries it
wanted, and, IIRC, I had to manually create backward links (ln - s
lib<somethingorother>.so.4 lib<somethingorother>.so.2....

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