Hi everyone! :-) I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine, xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I used them happily. I am mostly surprised with the absence of *any* torrent client, bar the rtorrent (which doesn't have a man page and I have no idea how to use it). Also kile, krusader and pavucontrol are quite basic and common apps... The configured repositories are: base, updates, extras, rpmforge, elrepo, as reported by yum. What am I missing? I would also be grateful if anyone has a suggestion for a reasonable (and available) substitute for any of these apps. I usually prefer KDE4 apps, but will use anything that works. I found some (rtorrent, mozilla-vlc, gnome-volume-control), but I am not exactly thrilled with their quality, so I'm hoping someone has a better suggestion. Google didn't want to be my friend this time, all hits were related to C5... ;-) TIA, :-) Marko
On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 02:56:35 PM Marko Vojinovic wrote:> Hi everyone! :-) > > I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now > tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the > repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, > pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine, > xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I > used them happily. > > I am mostly surprised with the absence of *any* torrent client, bar > the rtorrent (which doesn't have a man page and I have no idea how to > use it). Also kile, krusader and pavucontrol are quite basic and > common apps... > > The configured repositories are: base, updates, extras, rpmforge, > elrepo, as reported by yum. > > What am I missing?Maybe you wanted EPEL not elrepo? EPEL has at least ktorrent. /Peter> I would also be grateful if anyone has a suggestion for a reasonable > (and available) substitute for any of these apps. I usually prefer > KDE4 apps, but will use anything that works. I found some (rtorrent, > mozilla-vlc, gnome-volume-control), but I am not exactly thrilled with > their quality, so I'm hoping someone has a better suggestion. Google > didn't want to be my friend this time, all hits were related to C5... > ;-) > > TIA, :-) > Marko-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110830/4ad1450b/attachment-0002.sig>
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 14:56 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:> Hi everyone! :-) > > I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now > tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the > repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, > pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine, > xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I > used them happily. > > I am mostly surprised with the absence of *any* torrent client, bar > the rtorrent (which doesn't have a man page and I have no idea how to > use it). Also kile, krusader and pavucontrol are quite basic and > common apps... > > The configured repositories are: base, updates, extras, rpmforge, > elrepo, as reported by yum. > > What am I missing? > > I would also be grateful if anyone has a suggestion for a reasonable > (and available) substitute for any of these apps. I usually prefer > KDE4 apps, but will use anything that works. I found some (rtorrent, > mozilla-vlc, gnome-volume-control), but I am not exactly thrilled with > their quality, so I'm hoping someone has a better suggestion. Google > didn't want to be my friend this time, all hits were related to C5... > ;-) > > TIA, :-) > MarkoI use Vuze for bittorrent. Used to be called Azureus. Download here: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php HTH. B.J. CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
Hello Marko, On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:56:35 +0200 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi everyone! :-) > > I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now > tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the > repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, > pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine, > xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I > used them happily. > > I am mostly surprised with the absence of *any* torrent client, bar > the rtorrent (which doesn't have a man page and I have no idea how to > use it). Also kile, krusader and pavucontrol are quite basic and > common apps... > > The configured repositories are: base, updates, extras, rpmforge, > elrepo, as reported by yum. > > What am I missing? > > I would also be grateful if anyone has a suggestion for a reasonable > (and available) substitute for any of these apps. I usually prefer > KDE4 apps, but will use anything that works. I found some (rtorrent, > mozilla-vlc, gnome-volume-control), but I am not exactly thrilled with > their quality, so I'm hoping someone has a better suggestion. Google > didn't want to be my friend this time, all hits were related to C5... > ;-)As audacious is crashing at startup here, I've got back to xmms, found here: http://puias.math.ias.edu/wiki/YumRepositories6 (apparently it's down, I guess it's temporary). For torrents, I installed transmission from the sources. I didn't succeed in making firefox to make use of mplayer, apparently it uses totem, more or less efficiently. For the sake of the archives, gnome-volume-control comes w/ the gnome-media package. You might need to check at atrpms repo for other software. Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110830/5fad230a/attachment-0002.sig>
2011/8/30 Peter Kjellstr?m <cap at nsc.liu.se>:> On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 02:56:35 PM Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Hi everyone! :-) >> >> I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now >> tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the >> repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, >> pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine, >> xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I >> used them happily. >> >> I am mostly surprised with the absence of *any* torrent client, bar >> the rtorrent (which doesn't have a man page and I have no idea how to >> use it). Also kile, krusader and pavucontrol are quite basic and >> common apps... >> >> The configured repositories are: base, updates, extras, rpmforge, >> elrepo, as reported by yum. >> >> What am I missing? > > Maybe you wanted EPEL not elrepo? EPEL has at least ktorrent. >You probably definitely want EPEL, and also note that rpmforge has been rearranged into several sections, some of which aren't enabled by default in the stock rpmforge-release. This is also true in 5.x now but you may have installed your apps before the change. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com