On 01/25/2013 04:22 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > James Freer wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:32 PM,<m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> James Freer wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:34 PM, John Doe<jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>> From: James Freer<jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> >>>>> >>>>>>> i do not recommend to use this two repos simultaniuous (or use >>>>>>> priorities!). >>>>>> hmmm - well what is one supposed to do? >>>>> >>>>> I use priorities and did not run into much problems so far... >>>>> base = 1 >>>>> rpmforge = 2 (just watch out for rfx packages) >>>>> elrepo = 3 >>>>> epel = 4 >>>>> >>>>> JD >>>> >>>> Thanks for that suggestion. I'll look into it all again in a couple of >>>> days. I'm just surprised that Centos risk the stability issue using >>>> other repos. >>> >>> I wouldn't agree with the priorities above. As I mentioned earlier in >>> this thread, our standard repos, in addition to the base, are rpmfusion > and >>> epel. Other than *sigh* 386 vs x86_64 issues, we've never had dependency >>> conflicts. It all just works. elrepo I use *only* for kmod-nvidia and >>> its dependencies; I don't use rpmforge - I've tried, a few times, and >>> frequently run into dependency conflicts. >> >> I was only thinking of rpmforge as it seems the only repo with Abiword >> in it. For WP one has only got LO-writer or Abiword... i prefer the >> lighter unless i need the features of LO-writer as i did when i was >> teaching and preparing handouts. > > Watch out how you say that - my reaction on seeing you write WP is to > wonder if they've *finally* put out a newer release of WordPerfect. (There > *was* a linux version about 10-12 years ago, under Corel Linux). > > mark > There was a WordPerfect included in Red Hat Linux around about release 5 or so. To get it to work on later releases you had to install the required dependency packages from the install CD along with the WordPerfect package. I bet it would still run on CentOS if you installed it with it's dependency packages. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****