On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 07:03 -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I just installed CentOS 4.4 on my laptop, having good experience with Debian, Fedora Core 5, and RHEL4. I really like 4.4's overall appearance (meshing of RHEL4 and FC5), but what I have yet to figure out is how to access repositories for applications that are not part of the default install, such as ncftp. I invoked and updated yum, but it had no idea.
I would also like to see what all available kernel offerings are, and maybe various development tools (i.e. dependencies).
Up2Date didn't seem much of a help, either.
None of the above tools seemed to know anything about ncftp, and it has been around for at least 10 years, and is available for just about every distro, sometimes by default.
Try lftp instead. (it is the replacement in EL4)
Am I missing something with available packages?
Thanks.
Scott
How to manage software with yum is here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/
and here: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum
Here is how to added both extra CentOS repos and 3rd party repos in CentOS: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
Thanks, Johnny Hughes