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Newer Software Versions in CentOS

voyageur | May 14, 2009 - 1 year 16 weeks

In general, the software version in CentOS are behind. It's just the way CentOS and Red Hat operate. They aim for long term support and stability.

But if you have to use a newer software package, you may find that some newer packages in CentOS's test repository, as listed in this page Available Repositories for CentOS. For CentOS 5 testing packages, you can find them in CentOS Test Repos.

RPMforge have links on how to enable rpmforge repository. Here is the package list for rpmforge. 

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Anonymous
January 12, 2010
33 weeks 3 days

Would be helpful for the

Would be helpful for the noobs if you could explain how to add the required Repo's.

Thanks!


voyageur
January 18, 2010
32 weeks 4 days

Ah. The repo file is all you

Ah. The repo file is all you need. Once you have it installed, make sure the "enabled" flag is set to 1.

This post, http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-fedora-core-add-new-yum-repository.html, explains the how-to.

For the CentOS testing repo, just download the file http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-Testing.repo, and drop it into your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Make sure the "enabled" variable is set to 1.

Some repos provide a rpm file to help you install the repo. For those, you just run "rpm -Uhi http://adbc.com/.../something.rpm", and that shall take care of installation for you.

Hope this helps.