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.
Am I missing something with available packages?
Thanks.
Scott
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
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),
Eh? 4.4 is pure RHEL 4U4, there's nothing "meshed" in there from 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.
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
I would also like to see what all available kernel offerings are, and maybe various development tools (i.e. dependencies).
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/yum/ - maybe you're looking for the "group" commands in yum?
yum list "kernel*" would show all available packages beginning with "kernel".
Up2Date didn't seem much of a help, either.
Well, it's in there because of upstream compatibility but really uses yum as its backend.
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.
It's not in CentOS by default, but may be in one of the other repositories (see the wiki link above).
Am I missing something with available packages?
You could use lftp, which is pretty similar ...
Cheers,
Ralph
On Friday 03 November 2006 04:03, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
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.
This hit me fairly hard as well when I first started using CentOS, as it had become a good standby. Once I discovered lftp, it was fairly simple to see why it wasn't included. Lftp seems to mimic all the behavior that was useful from ncftp and drop everything that was painful. It also includes the equivalent of ncftpget with lftpget, which IMHO really does make it a drop in replacement.
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.
ncftp is out there somewhere, but as the other reply indicated, there might be better options than ncftp.
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Am I missing something with available packages?
For the packages that are not included with the core distro or extras repos, I suggest adding the rpmforge repository:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
Install and use the RHEL 4 repo for CentOS 4.
Dan Stoner Network Administrator Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida
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