[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Sep 27 13:09:57 UTC 2009
At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:13:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> m.roth at 5-cent.us a écrit :
>
> > I'd add in the search RHEL<your release>, at least to start. Beyond that,
> > some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms.
>
> No! Never use Mandrake RPMS on RHEL.
Never say never:
I have *successfully* used RPMS from both Mandrake and SUSE on a CentOS
4.x system. Both RPMs are somewhat specialized developemental ones
though.
>
> My advice for third-party applications:
>
> 1) Use RPMS from RPMForge repo.
>
> 2) If your app/lib/tool/whatever is still not available, go to
> http://rpm.pbone.net, and make an advanced search for SRPMS in the
> following categories:
>
> * CentOS 5
> * RHEL 5
> * FC 6
>
> Note: sometimes, SRPMS from more recent versions of Fedora will also
> work, but that depends on what it is.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Niki
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