On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:27 PM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. I generally leave epel enabled and if I need any other repositories for specific packages, set 'enabled=0' in the yum config for them. Then you can 'yum --enablerepo=repo_name install package_name' without too many surprises. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com