CentOS 6 and Standard X ScreenSavers

I use CentOS as a desktop, primarily because I need to be able to work on scripts and ensure they work on the servers before I throw the things over to the servers for production runs.  However, the default number (and style) of screensavers for Gnome are pitiful.  Popart, the insecure "photos", and some weird "gnome feet" screen saver.  Because of this, I needed to have the original X screen savers.

I'm using CentOS 6.4, and due to previous histories, I knew I needed packages named with the following :

gnome-screensaver (already installed)
xscreensaver-base
xscreensaver-extras
xscreensaver-extras-gss
xscreensaver-gl-base
xscreensaver-gl-extras
xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss

I loaded up http://rpm.pbone.net/ (way better than http://rpmfind.net/), and tracked down RedHat EL6 RPM URL's.  Then threw them into the following command :

yum install ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-base-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-gl-base-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-extras-gss-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-extras-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm

This gave me a requirement for a package that was missing with the following error :

Error: Package: 1:xscreensaver-base-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64 (/xscreensaver-base-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64)
           Requires: xorg-x11-resutils
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I found the missing package that was required (news to me), and fired off the command :

yum install ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-base-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-gl-base-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-extras-gss-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xscreensaver-extras-5.11-7.el6.respin1.x86_64.rpm \
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/xorg-x11-resutils-7.1-10.el6.x86_64.rpm

Success!  Note that you will have TWO screen saver options.  If you use gnome-screen saver and hot keys to lock your workstation, you should continue to use that one (your new screensavers will show up in it's configuration pane).  If you open the first one and it says it needs to stop the gnome screen saver, cancel that, close that preferences pane, and open the other one.