On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:31, Piscium groknok@gmail.com wrote:
I have been using Fedora on my home desktop for close to an year, and I am happy with it, nevertheless I am considering switching to a slower-moving distro.
CentOS + EPEL put together have less packages than Fedora. Moreover RPM Fusion has fewer packages for EL than for Fedora. I am wondering how can I install on my PC applications for which packages do not exist from one of the above-mentioned repos.
I can go upstream, get sources and build them. It is a good solution, I do that even with Fedora, however this can mean a lot of work when a package depends on 10 others.
So I wonder what do other CentOS users do in a similar situation? Is it possible to get a Fedora binary package and install it? What about getting a Fedora source package, building and installing it? Is there any other possibility?
Are there any specific applications that you need but are not available in the CentOS repos, or just in general? My experience is that I had to build Anki [1], as no current version was available for either CentOS or Fedora.
[1] http://ichi2.net/anki/#linux