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I said before that I wanted to install irssi on my VM. Well I did I don’t know whether I am getting used to Centos or my prejudice against it was so strong at the start that when I do get into it and have to do stuff, I find out that its not really that big a deal. I don’t know. Still prefer debian though Anyway I want to use irssi to chat on some rooms I partake in that don’t really exist (#cabal) and have it under a screen session so I can see what was said before I got into work and then join in without asking to be caught up on the goings on. In work I use colloquy which is a very pretty IRC client, but its annoying. When someone says my name on it – it bounces on the dock. Now I know there is probably a way to get that to stop in the prefs, but I don’t want that. When it comes to work I want to know that someone is looking me. For #cabal type stuff though it can wait. Installing it on Centos wasn’t a pain – and here it is for anyone that might want to do it in the future.

16:56:01 a: ~ $cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install irssi

That’s it.