At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:13:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > m.roth@xxxxxxxxx a écrit : > > > I'd add in the search RHEL<your release>, at least to start. Beyond that, > > some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms. > > No! Never use Mandrake RPMS on RHEL. Never say never: I have *successfully* used RPMS from both Mandrake and SUSE on a CentOS 4.x system. Both RPMs are somewhat specialized developemental ones though. > > My advice for third-party applications: > > 1) Use RPMS from RPMForge repo. > > 2) If your app/lib/tool/whatever is still not available, go to > http://rpm.pbone.net, and make an advanced search for SRPMS in the > following categories: > > * CentOS 5 > * RHEL 5 > * FC 6 > > Note: sometimes, SRPMS from more recent versions of Fedora will also > work, but that depends on what it is. > > Have fun, > > Niki > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
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