On Ter, 2016-05-31 at 17:42 +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Le 31/05/2016 à 16:47, Andreas Benzler a écrit :
>
> Well specifically for centos-5 .. I am not sure. But CentOS-5 is
> less
> >
> > than a year from EOL anyway, so if you are supporting those in a
> > desktop, you should be considering how to move them to at least
> > CentOS-6
> > now (if not CentOS-7).
Well, I just gave RPMFusion a spin on EL5, and I'd say it's more or
less
unusable.
http://sourcefreedom.com/eol-operating-systems-etc/eol-red-hat/
https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
RHEL 5 / Centos 5 - end of deployment was Q1 2014 , Maintenance Abril
2017,
# yum install mplayer
...
Error: Missing Dependency: libcaca.so.0 is needed by package
mplayer-1.0-0.101.20080903svn.el5.1.i386 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
# yum install ffmpeg
...
Error: Missing Dependency: libImlib2.so.1 is needed by package
ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5.i386 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
I have some CentOS 5.x clients on some very old hardware, and I'd
like
to keep them running 5.x until it's EOL next year.
Guess I'll just roll my own package repo in the meantime.
Cheers,
Niki
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Sérgio M. B.