On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:54:27AM +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Forgive me for querrying the Fedora list for this, but I really don't want to > subscribe to a Yet Another Mailing List just to have this one single basic > question answered. It is quite unlikely that I will be having any more > questions about CentOS in the future, so... > > Ok, to the problem --- I have one (soon to be two) CentOS 5.2 machine(s), and > I seem to miss some packages that I am used to in Fedora: > > 1) kmod-nvidia and kmod-fglrx --- searching through the web, all I see about > CentOS is installing/compiling drivers straight from nVidia and ATI. Are > there maintained yumable packages that get autoupdated along with CentOS > kernel like the ones for Fedora? > > 2) BackupPC --- so far it was running quite well for me on Fedora, but it does > not seem to exist for CentOS, which comes with some other (equivalent) tools. > Am I destined to use those, or am I missing some repository where backuppc > can be found? Or should I compile it myself? > > 3) Cairo-dock --- ok, this is not essential, but I like it :-). However, yum > says no matches found. > > Just to note, so far I have enabled the default base, extras, updates > repositories from CentOS, and in addition the Dag repository for RHEL5 and > adobe repository for flash. > > <rant> > ATrpms has way too obsolete installation instructions (some others too --- > Dries comes to mind) to be seriously considered as a reliable repository. For > example, Livna has a .rpm file for each Fedora distro that I just have to > install and it is ready to go. On ATrpms website I was told to manually edit > the .repo files according to the template given for Fedora 7 (!!!), changing > some parameters to suit my own distro (???)... Wtf? Did I miss the right > instructions page? This is just user-unfriendly, to say the least. But I may > even try it out if someone just gives me the exact contents of the > appropriate .repo file that works with CentOS 5.2, and if ATrpms has all > these packages that I need, updated more often than their website... > </rant> <rantback> Try http://atrpms.net/name/atrpms-package-config/ </rantback> > This machine is meant to be unattended (physically, not remotely) for a period > of 3 years, so I guessed that CentOS is the distro that would Just Work in > such conditions, and at the same time it is similar enough to Fedora that I > shall be comfortable admining it remotely as neccessary. > > The other machine is to be used as a desktop machine by a serve-on-a-plate > kind of user who knows nothing beyond kde menus (hence the question about > automatic graphics drivers), also admined by me remotely. > > I will be thankful for any suggestions about the above. I do not insist on yum > and will content to build from source, if I can be guaranteed that such setup > will not break after 3 years of possible (regular) kernel updates. > > Excuse me again for not going to CentOS list for this, it seems obvious that a > lot of people here use CentOS as well, so... ;-) > > Best, :-) > Marko > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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