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), Eh? 4.4 is pure RHEL 4U4, there's nothing "meshed" in there from 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. <http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories> > I would also like to see what all available kernel offerings are, and > maybe various development tools (i.e. dependencies). <http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/yum/> - maybe you're looking for the "group" commands in yum? yum list "kernel*" would show all available packages beginning with "kernel". > Up2Date didn't seem much of a help, either. Well, it's in there because of upstream compatibility but really uses yum as its backend. > 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. It's not in CentOS by default, but may be in one of the other repositories (see the wiki link above). > Am I missing something with available packages? You could use lftp, which is pretty similar ... Cheers, Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra@xxxxxxxxxxxx | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC
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