Am 24.01.2013 um 21:27 schrieb James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com>: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Leon Fauster > <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote: >> Am 22.01.2013 um 23:03 schrieb James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com>: >>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >>> >>> puias... sorry i overlooked that. Clear enough now. I'll use the epel >>> and rpmforge repos and see how i get on. > >> i do not recommend to use this two repos simultaniuous (or use priorities!). >> LF > > hmmm - well what is one supposed to do? I've got EPEL installed fine > but that doesn't have abiword, pyrenamer and some of the the other... > fairly standard apps. I turned to Centos after Fedora has proved to be > a bit dodgy. Centos along with debian are supposed to be the TWO main > community distros. If rpmforge shouldn't be installed (as you've > advised) it seems i need to look at another distro. The advice is to > stay with a distro's developer packages and only use other repo if one > really has to. I can only assume that Centos really is for Server use > rather than desktop... i was just hoping to use it as a desktop before > moving onto the server route. the choices leads to the problem called hick's law :-) but seriously i do not want to dive into the discussion of the different repository goals. [1] should explain all what you need and i am sure that CentOS is great as a desktop OS! I can suggest it because my primary requirement is maturity and long-term support. Just try it (e.g. only with rpmforge enabled). [1] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories -- LF