On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:31, Piscium <groknok at gmail.com> wrote: > I have been using Fedora on my home desktop for close to an year, and > I am happy with it, nevertheless I am considering switching to a > slower-moving distro. > > CentOS + EPEL put together have less packages than Fedora. Moreover > RPM Fusion has fewer packages for EL than for Fedora. I am wondering > how can I install on my PC applications for which packages do not > exist from one of the above-mentioned repos. > > I can go upstream, get sources and build them. It is a good solution, > I do that even with Fedora, however this can mean a lot of work when a > package depends on 10 others. > > So I wonder what do other CentOS users do in a similar situation? Is > it possible to get a Fedora binary package and install it? What about > getting a Fedora source package, building and installing it? Is there > any other possibility? > Are there any specific applications that you need but are not available in the CentOS repos, or just in general? My experience is that I had to build Anki [1], as no current version was available for either CentOS or Fedora. [1] http://ichi2.net/anki/#linux -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com