At Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:31:18 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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? RPMForge has a lot of packages (but be careful!). rpmbone has more. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments