Fedora yum repositories?

Greetings all,

I come from Debian world and I installed Fedora 12 in my Macbook Pro. When I try to install software , I noticed that I cant find the huge software list which had in Debian. (first thing I found missing was bioinformatics tool called blast which can be found in debian repo http://packages.debian.org/sid/blast2 ) I used rpmfusion as :

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

but couldn't see many of packages found in Debian.

Is there any single massive repository for Fedora like in Debian ?

Thanks in advance.

Ashika Umanga Umagiliya

Posted 2009-12-03T08:26:50.723

Reputation: 275

You can get blast from the ncbi ftp server.

– terdon – 2012-08-18T16:23:57.453

Debian's policy is to package up anything that compiles, Fedora is pickier there... – vonbrand – 2013-01-16T13:49:53.590

Answers

Yes: It is the Fedora repositories. There may of course be differences between Fedora and Debian, since otherwise they wouldn't both exist.

And of course if you find something is missing, feel free to package it and submit it back to Fedora so that other people can take advantage of it too.

Adam Batkin

Posted 2009-12-03T08:26:50.723

Reputation: 914

Fedora doesn't have the same central repository philosophy as Debian. It relies more on the upstream developers, so you can get newer packages at the theoreticaly risk of less compatibility. I typically recommend rpmforge to people, it's large and well enough used to be good quality.

user23287

Posted 2009-12-03T08:26:50.723

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The repositories I use are:

google
fedora
rpmfusion-free-updates
Dropbox
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
rpmfusion-free
adobe-linux-i386
updates
google-chrome
rpmfusion-nonfree

There are several others to choose from though. A quick online search for the above should get you going.

Mex5150

Posted 2009-12-03T08:26:50.723

Reputation: 1