How to find rpms for various distros?

[Ben Scott]

On 1/13/06, Donald Leslie {74279} <dml at swlmail.msd.ray.com> wrote:
> Where should one look for the latest stuff for red hat

  I'm not much familar with SuSE, but for Red Hat and Fedora, an
outstanding resource is the Dag Wiers / RPMforge repository.  See
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ and http://rpmforge.net/ on the
web.  Once I added the dag repository to my YUM configuration, I find
I can usually find any given package by doing "yum install foo" or
"yum search foo".

  If you cannot find a binary package for your exact distribution,
look for a source RPM (.src.rpm file).  Download that and run

          rpm --rebuild foo-1.2.3-5.src.rpm

to attempt to build the source RPM on your system.  If it works, the
resulting binary RPM will end up in something like

          /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/foo-1.2.3-5.i386.rpm

You can then attempt to install the binary RPM and see if it works. 
As long as you have all the needed build dependencies (a big if,
sometimes), this generally works.

  Hope this helps,

-- Ben