On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
To: centos@centos.org From: Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system
On 9/17/2010 1:06 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org on extra repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend? i'll revisit that page later today but i'm thinking that, for the sake of this first-level admin course, EPEL might be sufficient for now.
How to identify and work your way out of rpm conflicts. (without using nodeps of course).
How to download, md5sum check, unpack, configure and compile a GPL *.tar.gz package.
As SysAdmin that's something they will need to do sooner or later :)
But it's much more important to know all the reasons *not* to do that except as a last resort. Reasons that someone who has had to maintain and update such things for decades will know that won't occur to an inexperienced beginner. You can summarize by saying "yum update is a lot easier".
Of course.
But what if they want/need to install a package that is not available in any of the repos? Maybe even just for testing purposes?
Keith