CentOS - Mar 2017 - Finding lshw and flash-plugin or alternates

Dear CentOS Gurus

I have been using "repoforge.org" primarily to obtain two RPMs, 
"lshw" and "flash-plugin".  I recently realized that
"repoforge.org"
should not be used, as it has had no updates for a long long 
time.  But, when I search for the RPMs within the repos:
  base
  centosplus
  contrib
  epel
  extras
  updates

the lshw program is nowhere to be found.  I value its ability to 
inventory the hardware, and construct an attractive HTML page.

So, for each of these two programs,
  - is there a repo I can add that would cover what I need
  - is there an alternate program in the case of lshw

This applies no only to Centos 6 (32 & 64), but also Centos 7.

David

david wrote:
> Dear CentOS Gurus
>
> I have been using "repoforge.org" primarily to obtain two RPMs,
> "lshw" and "flash-plugin".  I recently realized that
"repoforge.org"
> should not be used, as it has had no updates for a long long
> time.  But, when I search for the RPMs within the repos:
<snip>
CentOS 7, just updated:
 yum list lshw
Available Packages
lshw.x86_64            B.02.17-12.el7            base

Have you tried just yum install lshw?

     mark

> Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 13:36:26 -0800
> From: david <david at daku.org>
>
> Dear CentOS Gurus
> 
> I have been using "repoforge.org" primarily to obtain two RPMs,
> "lshw" and "flash-plugin".  I recently realized that
> "repoforge.org" should not be used, as it has had no updates for
a
> long long time.  But, when I search for the RPMs within the repos:
>   base
>   centosplus
>   contrib
>   epel
>   extras
>   updates
> 
> the lshw program is nowhere to be found.  I value its ability to
> inventory the hardware, and construct an attractive HTML page.
> 
> So, for each of these two programs,
>   - is there a repo I can add that would cover what I need
>   - is there an alternate program in the case of lshw
> 
> This applies no only to Centos 6 (32 & 64), but also Centos 7.
> 

I'm seeing lshw 64 in base for both -6 and -7

  lshw.x86_64      B.02.17-4.el6     base    
  lshw-gui.x86_64  B.02.17-4.el6     base  

  lshw.x86_64      B.02.17-12.el7    base      
  lshw-gui.x86_64  B.02.17-12.el7    base   

Now that they are doing development on the linux version again, I use
the Adobe repo at:

  http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/

for my flash plugin (on -7).

Folks

An earlier post concerning 'lshw' has been resolved.  It exists in 
'base' for el6(32), el6(64), el7(64) and armv5tel (rpi2).  So, I will 
repeat the original request with lshw concerns removed.

I have been using "repoforge.org" primarily to obtain RPMS for 
"flash-plugin".  I recently realized that "repoforge.org"
should not
be used, as it has had no updates for a long long time.  But, when I 
search for the RPMs within the repos:
  base
  centosplus
  contrib
  epel
  extras
  updates

So, is there a repo I can add that would cover what I need

This applies not only to Centos 6 (32 & 64), but also Centos 7 and 
maybe armv5tel (rpi2/3).

David

At 01:44 PM 3/1/2017, you wrote:
>david wrote:
> > Dear CentOS Gurus
> >
> > I have been using "repoforge.org" primarily to obtain two
RPMs,
> > "lshw" and "flash-plugin".  I recently realized
that "repoforge.org"
> > should not be used, as it has had no updates for a long long
> > time.  But, when I search for the RPMs within the repos:
><snip>
>CentOS 7, just updated:
>  yum list lshw
>Available Packages
>lshw.x86_64            B.02.17-12.el7            base
>
>Have you tried just yum install lshw?
>
>      mark
>
>__

What can I say.  Sometimes the fingers on the keyboard outpace the brain.
"DUH"  :-)

David

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 01:36:26PM -0800, david wrote:
> Dear CentOS Gurus
> 
> I have been using "repoforge.org" primarily to obtain two RPMs,
"lshw" and
> "flash-plugin".  I recently realized that
"repoforge.org" should not be
> used, as it has had no updates for a long long time.  But, when I search
for
> the lshw program is nowhere to be found.  I value its ability to inventory
> the hardware, and construct an attractive HTML page.
> 
I'm not sure about CentOS-6, but for CentOS-7, lshw seems to be in the base
repo.  Flash can be gotten directly from Adobe's site, you can either get
the yum repo or just download the latest rpm and use rpm -Uvh on it.

Looking at pkgs.org, it seems that lshw is also in the base reop for
CentOS-6x.

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