[CentOS] [C6] Some typical apps missing?

Tue Aug 30 13:04:29 UTC 2011
Peter Kjellström <cap at nsc.liu.se>

On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 02:56:35 PM Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Hi everyone! :-)
> 
> I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now
> tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the
> repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader,
> pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine,
> xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I
> used them happily.
> 
> I am mostly surprised with the absence of *any* torrent client, bar
> the rtorrent (which doesn't have a man page and I have no idea how to
> use it). Also kile, krusader and pavucontrol are quite basic and
> common apps...
> 
> The configured repositories are: base, updates, extras, rpmforge,
> elrepo, as reported by yum.
> 
> What am I missing?

Maybe you wanted EPEL not elrepo? EPEL has at least ktorrent.

/Peter
 
> I would also be grateful if anyone has a suggestion for a reasonable
> (and available) substitute for any of these apps. I usually prefer
> KDE4 apps, but will use anything that works. I found some (rtorrent,
> mozilla-vlc, gnome-volume-control), but I am not exactly thrilled with
> their quality, so I'm hoping someone has a better suggestion. Google
> didn't want to be my friend this time, all hits were related to C5...
> ;-)
> 
> TIA, :-)
> Marko
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