[CLUG] Centos yum repo install

[Ronan Kirby]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

> I tried with rpm but I need a lot of dependencies I can't manage to install.

When you tried to install just the RPM, do you mean with something like 
"rpm -ivh rip-my-tunez.i386.rpm" or did you use yum to do it? The latter 
will try to resolve the deps for you, even though it's a local RPM you're 
installing - "yum install rip-my-tunez.i386.rpm".

> Questions:
> How I can find the repo related to an appli?

There may not be one - not all applications are in repos. Livna and 
rpmfusion tend to be the ones I use which, for the most part, cover 
everything. That said, I'm not using CentOS. Google will usually expose a 
repo when you search for that and a package name.

> Which repo are compatible/uncompatible?

If a repo isn't compatible (i.e. doesn't carry packages for your distro / 
release) it'll simply fail. CentOS is one of the more common cloned 
distributions, so you'll find it fairly well served.

Hope this helps.

- Ronan

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> So far my repos are:
> repo id         repo name                                status
> addons        CentOS-5 - Addons 
> enabled :       0
> base            CentOS-5 - Base 
> enabled :   2,508
> epel            Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 -            enabled : 
> 4,047
> extras         CentOS-5 - Extras 
> enabled :     298
> redhatclub-repositor    Red Hat Club Repository - i386     enabled :     423
> rpmforge                     Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net - da 
> enabled :   8,582
> rpmfusion-free-updat   RPM Fusion for EL 5 - Free - Updates          enabled 
> :       1
> rpmfusion-free-updat  RPM Fusion for EL 5 - Free - Test Update     enabled : 
> 79
> rpmfusion-nonfree-up  RPM Fusion for EL 5 - Nonfree - Updates     enabled : 
> 0
> rpmfusion-nonfree-up  RPM Fusion for EL 5 - Nonfree - Test Upd   enabled 
> :       13
> updates                      CentOS-5 - Updates
>             enabled :     186
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> Any advert is welcome
> Thanks for your help
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