On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 07:03 -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I just installed CentOS 4.4 on my laptop, having good experience with > Debian, Fedora Core 5, and RHEL4. I really like 4.4's overall appearance > (meshing of RHEL4 and FC5), but what I have yet to figure out is how to > access repositories for applications that are not part of the default > install, such as ncftp. I invoked and updated yum, but it had no idea. > > I would also like to see what all available kernel offerings are, and > maybe various development tools (i.e. dependencies). > > Up2Date didn't seem much of a help, either. > > None of the above tools seemed to know anything about ncftp, and it has > been around for at least 10 years, and is available for just about every > distro, sometimes by default. Try lftp instead. (it is the replacement in EL4) > > Am I missing something with available packages? > > Thanks. > > Scott How to manage software with yum is here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/ and here: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum Here is how to added both extra CentOS repos and 3rd party repos in CentOS: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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