Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 13:36:26 -0800 From: david david@daku.org
Dear CentOS Gurus
I have been using "repoforge.org" primarily to obtain two RPMs, "lshw" and "flash-plugin". I recently realized that "repoforge.org" should not be used, as it has had no updates for a long long time. But, when I search for the RPMs within the repos: base centosplus contrib epel extras updates
the lshw program is nowhere to be found. I value its ability to inventory the hardware, and construct an attractive HTML page.
So, for each of these two programs,
- is there a repo I can add that would cover what I need
- is there an alternate program in the case of lshw
This applies no only to Centos 6 (32 & 64), but also Centos 7.
I'm seeing lshw 64 in base for both -6 and -7
lshw.x86_64 B.02.17-4.el6 base lshw-gui.x86_64 B.02.17-4.el6 base
lshw.x86_64 B.02.17-12.el7 base lshw-gui.x86_64 B.02.17-12.el7 base
Now that they are doing development on the linux version again, I use the Adobe repo at:
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
for my flash plugin (on -7).