[CALUG] Linux software management

[Brandon Checketts]

Russ,

rpmforge actually has a package to install, that will install the the necessary 
files.  I usually do this:

Find the appropriate file from 
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/   It will be named 
0.3.6.el<VERSION>.rf.<ARCH>.rpm

Where VERSION is either 4 or 5 depending on whether you are using CentOS4 or 
CentOS5.  ARCH should be either i386 or x86_64

wget 
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh rpmforge*

You can then 'yum install whatever' and it should include the rpmforge repositories.

Hope that helps,
Brandon Checketts



Russ wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to understand the complexitites of managing software on a
> Linux machine.  I just installed CentOS, and I want to download and
> install J2EE and Eclipse.  I'm a Linux beginner.  Should all my software
> come from the manufactureers recommended repositories in order to retain a
> stable system?  I added the jpackage.repo to my 'yum.repos.d' directory
> and it seems to work fine.  I also tried adding the dries.repo and the
> dag.repo, and neither of those worked.  I was following dries and dag web
> site recommendations/instuctions on how to add the repos, but my system
> complained about not finding the /var/cache/dag and the
> /var/cache/dries directories.  I've been looking online in the tldp web
> site, Linux books, and the CentOS documentation.  I figure I'm not setting
> up the .repo files properly.  Sorry I can't send them with this email at
> this time, but any help would be appreiated.  Any suggestions on where I
> can learn more about repos and  software management?  If you need more
> info please let me know.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Russ Main
> 
> 
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