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3rd party repository for EL5: Odiecolon.repo
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Radu-Cristian Fotescu <[log in to unmask]>
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Radu-Cristian Fotescu <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:15:44 +0300
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Folks,

Some time ago, I've set up my own repository for CentOS 5.3 and Scientific Linux 5.3.
Initially, it was supposed to be compatible with EPEL (well, it might still be!), but also was supposed to "fix" a few incompatibilities between RPMforge and EPEL, because at that time I was taking the multimedia packages from RF/Dag.

The relaunched "Odiecolon.repo v2" works now as follows:
-- as the primary and unique repo for desktop users who don't want to use RPMforge, RPM Fusion, etc.
-- providing all the multimedia packages I need, provided that they compile on EL5 without upgrading the system libraries.
-- providing some other applications that should have been part of EL5.
-- still virtually compatible with EPEL, but this is not guaranteed.
-- definitely incompatible with RPMforge and RPM Fusion.

Note that I initially started this repo in order to provide GIMP 2.3.15 (and 2.3.14), as the latest pre-2.4 version that still builds and runs on EL5, for an "almost-2.4" experience.
It was also started to add some very nice GNOME themes: the Nimbus theme(s) from OpenSolaris and gnome-dustwave-theme-0.1, a mix of two themes introduced with Ubuntu Jaunty: it uses Dust for Metacity, and New Wave for the GTK+ decorations. Compiz effects must be disabled! Screenshot: http://beranger.org/img/DustWave.jpg

This repo has primarily been tested with CentOS 5.3 (i386) installations, and also with Scientific Linux 5.3 with IceWM as I am using it on a (rather very) old laptop.

Scientific Linux needed some specific packages as opposed to CentOS, because your gstreamer has lame and id3tag support, so there are a few SL-specific packages.

I am now only using this repo as the non-official addition to the official repositories of the EL5 clones I run on my laptops. Oh, it also adds the Adobe repo, for Flash and Acroread.

I would very much appreciate if the users of SL5 could test it and report back issues or success stories.

Please read *carefully* the description and documentation provided:
http://odiecolon.lastdot.org/

Thank you,
Béranger
http://beranger.org

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