Not Debian/Ubuntu Desktop

[Matt Graham]

On 2015-01-12 21:49, trent shipley wrote:
> I tried CentOS as a guest Windows 8.1 using VMWare Player, but had
> some problems with it. Mostly I couldn't figure out what packages were
> available.

"yum search $KEYWORD" is a very useful command in all Redhat-derived 
distros.  ("emerge --search $KEYWORD" in Gentoo, "apt-cache search 
$KEYWORD" in Debianish IIRC.)

> CentOS seemed to have fewer rpms than other distributions.

The repository lists in /etc/yum.repos.d/ don't have all of the repos 
turned on by default.  Only "base", "updates", and possibly "extras" are 
enabled.  If you edit the files, you can set enabled=1 for "centosplus", 
"contrib", and "fasttrack", which will get you a bunch of other 
packages.  Many projects like MongoDB have their own CentOS 
repositories, and their websites will provide .repo files that you can 
put on your own system in case you'd like to get the latest stuff 
directly.




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