[CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

[Kaushal Shriyan]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 01:11:54 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> > > 1.) EPEL doesn't make it a priority (or even a goal) to work well with
> any other third-party repository;
>
> > True enough as a fact, but it sort-of sounds like a criticism for
> > something that's not really practical.
>
> I'll just point to the EPEL section of the wiki.centos.org Repositories
> page, and let that say almost all that really needs to be said, other than
> I will say that I chose my wording for that sentence rather carefully,
> since I didn't want it to sound like a complaint, and only hit send after
> making multiple revisions.
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Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand when i install CentOS
5.8 on a fresh server, what are the available repositories by default and
if i need any packages which are not there in the default repos, Do i need
to enable third party repositories.

Regards

Kaushal