[CentOS] Best way to install non-official packages?

[Johnny Hughes]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> Sooner or later everyone needs to install a package that is not 
> included on the official installation CDs/DVD. Until now I just used 
> rpmseek.com and Rpmfind.Net but of course this is far from optimal for 
> security and compatibility to reasons.
> 
> So what is the recommended way to get and install "non official" 
> packages that are not part of the repository?!
> 
> 


Lots of extra repos listed here:
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories

If what you want isn't there, look for fedora source files (SRPMS) and 
rebuild:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/

Or create a package (if required) from source tarballs.


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