[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[James Sumners]

[1] yields results for RHEL5 and Fedora 10 -- I need RHEL4. There is
an RPM available at [2], but I have no idea if I can trust the
repository. I'm not very keen on installing binaries from random
public repositories.

As for the software being supported, that is a non-issue. They can
provide a base repository of software that they will actively support
and a repository that contains software you can use on your own. The
benefit would be that the packages are built and maintained by the
company, and you can trust them.

[1] -- http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ntop&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=i386
[2] -- http://packages.sw.be/ntop/

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Don Lachlan
<ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:51 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I mean really, this stupid distribution doesn't even include useful tools:
>
> I've said the same thing about SuSE and Ubuntu - any commercial
> distribution is going to pare down their supported software, although
> there are usually "unsupported" community methods to install whatever
> you want.
>
> I will often search via RPMfind, then pick whatever repo seems most
> reliable. I've used Dag's work before and found it to be good:
>
> http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/dag/redhat/el5/i386/ntop-3.3.8-2.el5.rf.i386.html
> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/
>
> And "back in my day", I had to install gtar if I wanted "z" as an
> option to tar, since that was a GNU extension and Solaris ignored GNU
> and used their own old-school (and always backward compatible!)
> utilities. :)
>
> -Lachlan


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