CentOS - Sep 2017 - owncloud on CentOS - I have problems installing/updating recently

Dear Experts,

after quite some time of praising ownclowd, I started having problems with
installing and updating desktop owncloud-client on CentOS. Namely, yum
repository owncloud.org points to for rpm/yum based Linux distributions
lives on suse.com site (well, for all flavors of Linux, actually). I
remember it smelled fishy for me the first time I installed ownclouud on
CentOS using that repository living at suse.com. It worked, however, for
quite some time, but recently it just times out for me, even what
owncloud.org currently gives as yum.repo information (which has changed
from what was in the past).

Does anybody have any suggestion? Am I the only one (thus, making my
"pilot error"), or others have the same? Did someone find workaround?

Incidentally, another system - FreeBSD - I run on my laptop and
workstation, has no trouble with owncloudclient package. But I have to
give graduate students Linux, and prefer CentOS Linux, so I do need to
make it work even if I end up compiling it all the time myself (sigh, I
hope, not).


Thanks a lot in advance for all your help!

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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Le 20/09/2017 ? 18:18, Valeri Galtsev a ?crit?:
> after quite some time of praising ownclowd, I started having problems with
> installing and updating desktop owncloud-client on CentOS. Namely, yum
> repository owncloud.org points to for rpm/yum based Linux distributions
> lives on suse.com site (well, for all flavors of Linux, actually). I
> remember it smelled fishy for me the first time I installed ownclouud on
> CentOS using that repository living at suse.com. It worked, however, for
> quite some time, but recently it just times out for me, even what
> owncloud.org currently gives as yum.repo information (which has changed
> from what was in the past).
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestion? Am I the only one (thus, making my
> "pilot error"), or others have the same? Did someone find
workaround?
Hi Valeri,

I'm using OwnCloud client on my workstation and my server, both running
CentOS 7 with KDE.

I wrote a little blog article (in French) about installing and
configuring OwnCloud.

https://blog.microlinux.fr/owncloud-centos-kde/

The SUSE repository works perfectly. There has been a transition period
with overlapping dependencies in this repository and EPEL. What I did
was simply remove all packages and reinstall the owncloud-client
package. This repository is also always up-to-date, whereas the EPEL
package is regularly lagging behind.

Cheers,

Niki

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas
> Kovacs
> Sent: den 20 september 2017 18:55
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] owncloud on CentOS - I have problems
> installing/updating recently
>
> > Does anybody have any suggestion? Am I the only one (thus, making my
> > "pilot error"), or others have the same? Did someone find
workaround?
>
> The SUSE repository works perfectly. There has been a transition period
> with overlapping dependencies in this repository and EPEL. What I did
> was simply remove all packages and reinstall the owncloud-client
> package. This repository is also always up-to-date, whereas the EPEL
> package is regularly lagging behind.
Not just you Valeri. Thought it was a bit fishy as well, but figured I'd, as
Nicolas mentions, doing a uninstall and then reinstall things might solve the 
problems.


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//Sorin