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My company has RedHat RHEL 5.4 on the Linux box, and I need to install Meld on it. How can it be done?

$  sudo yum install meld
No package meld available.
Nothing to do

$  sudo yum search meld
No Matches found

The website http://meldmerge.org/ has the download but there is no instructions on how to install it, and the website http://pkgs.repoforge.org/meld/ has meld-1.1.5-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm and meld-1.1.5-1.rf.src.rpm Are they the ones to be used for RHEL 5.4 (not the src one?) and how to install it -- is it by using rpm? Can you give the exact lines on the command lines. Thanks.

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why the downvote? – 動靜能量 Jan 27 at 5:20

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Download the file you want to install.

Then: yum install "whatever_the_filename_is"

If the package is not signed: yum –nogpgcheck install "whatever_the_filename_is"

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so in this case, you mean first download meld-1.1.5-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm and then yum install meld-1.1.5-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm – 動靜能量 Jan 27 at 8:13
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Just be careful, packages that haven't been vetted by your distribution carry the risk of getting maintenance refused for installing non-suported stuff. You are taking over the responsibility of following updates, security vulnerability reports, .. – vonbrand Jan 28 at 1:40
I just wonder even though Linux can be such a solid development environment, why is installing a visual diff tool so difficult? Ubuntu seems the easiest, but Fedora, CentOS, RHEL 5 can be quite a bit harder – 動靜能量 Jan 29 at 6:39

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