[CentOS] [C6] Some typical apps missing?

[Les Mikesell]

2011/8/30 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.
>

You probably definitely want EPEL, and also note that rpmforge has
been rearranged into several sections, some of which aren't enabled by
default in the stock rpmforge-release.  This is also true in 5.x now
but you may have installed your apps before the change.

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