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Rpmforge Repository

Often you can get more recent releases of an applications from rpm forge (a.k.a. the dag repository). You can also find applications here not offered in the standard repositories at all.

sudo rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

To use it:

sudo yum update # to fetch a list of all the packages available
sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install PACKAGE

April 2011: On centos5.5 – the ‘sudo yum update’ step appears to install a version of the python-elementtree package that will break yum(3.2.22).

Simply choose ‘N’ at that point (it’s the only package it wants to install). Skip the step after that & ‘yum install git-core’ to get git & dependencies. This all appears to work so far. Note that if you have proceeded & yum has been broken – obtain the package:

http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm

and install using:

rpm -Uvh –-oldpackage python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm

This repaired yum for me.

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