See http://wiki.centos.org/centoswiki/Repositories/RPMForge for step by step setup procedure. Feedback is welcome. John. Steve Huff wrote: > > On May 4, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Max H. wrote: > >> Damian Sobieralski wrote: >> >>> Questions: >>> 1) Is dag a good repository to get me these apps that aren't part of >>> the >>> stock CentOS repository file? If not, which one should I use? I don't >>> need bleeding edge (even two versions behind for an app would be fine). >>> 2) What's up with the gpg failures? Should I be worried? >> >> >> To answer the first question, Dag is a wonderful Repo for locating >> just about anything extra that you could find. >> >> The second question I would have to guess is that the key isn't >> installed for the packages when you're trying to authenticate against >> the signatures. >> >> Try to import the key and re-run yum against Dag's repo. >> >> rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt >> >> Then "yum --enablerepo=dag {install,search,update,etc.} packagename > > > actually, you don't need to do most of this; you should be using the > RPMforge.net repo (it's a project run by Dag, Dries, and i believe one > or two other repository admins): > > 1) yum install yum-plugin-protectbase > > 2) add "plugins=1" to /etc/yum.conf > > 3) add "protect=1" to the "base" and "update" stanzas in /etc/ > yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo > > 4) download and install the appropriate rpmforge-release package (since > you seem to be using CentOS4, you want the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 > repo): > > http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/rpmforge-release/ > > now you have access to all of Dag's packages, plus you can install them > without worrying that they'll clobber your base packages with > dependencies. > > -steve > > p.s. the GPG errors are because you haven't installed Dag's GPG key. > the rpmforge-release package will do this for you. > > --- > If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an > improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin