[CentOS] yum, dag and xawtv

Tue May 9 05:29:18 UTC 2006
John Newbigin <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au>

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.
> 
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John Newbigin
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Swinburne University of Technology
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