CentOS / Fedora Core / RHEL 5 uses yum for software management. Yum allows you to add a new repository as a source to install binary software.
Understanding yum repository
yum repository configured using /etc/yum.conf file. Additional configuration files are also read from the directories set by the reposdir option (default is /etc/yum.repos.d and /etc/yum/repos.d.
RPMforge repository
Usually repository carries extra and useful packages. RPMforge is one of such repository. You can easily configure RPMforge repository for RHEL5 just by running following single RPM command:
# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
For 64 bit RHEL 5 Linux, enter:
# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
Now you can install software from RPMforge.
How do I install 3rd party repository manually?
Let us say you would like to install 3rd party repository from foo.nixcraft.com. Create a file called foo:
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# vi foo
Append following code:
[foo]
name=Foo for RHEL/ CentOS $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://foo.nixcraft.com/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://foo.nixcraft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
Save and close the file.
Where,
- [foo] : Repository name i.e. The [main] section must exist for yum to do anything.
- name=Foo for RHEL/ CentOS $releasever – $basearch : A human readable string describing the repository name
- baseurl=http://foo.nixcraft.com/centos/$releasever/$basearch/ : Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s ‘repodata’ directory lives
- enabled=1 : Enabled or disabled repo. To disable the repository temporarily, set the enabled to 0
- gpgcheck=1 : Security feature, use GPG key
- gpgkey=http://foo.nixcraft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt : GPL file location
Also you need to import the gpg key for the repository as follows:
# rpm --import http://foo.nixcraft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
Now you are ready to install software from foo repository. For further information refer to yum.conf man page:
$ man yum.conf
$ man yum
Hope this tip will help you to configure repository as and when required.
See also:
Howto Setup yum repositories to update or install package from ISO CDROM Image
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You might also be interested in repoman, which is also available in the Fedora repositories.
Thanks for sharing repoman 🙂
Quite useful, this is what I was look for, You save a lots of time.
Thanks.
Make sure you append.repo to foo. Thanks!
Looks like they moved the file to another directory. I needed to use this to get it to work…
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
The new link above is for 86_64 bit I think. where’s the new link for 32 bit?
The command line to add the 32bit RH el5 repository for yum is;
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
as of today.
(It would be nice if we could signal the editors to update the command line above to reflect these updates… 😉
Cfn
Hi Linux fans,
for those who get an error while trying to retrieve the rpm from the address mentioned in this wonderful post, here’s the new one:
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Good luck in your Linux endeavors, I hope you will all find it useful in your lives.
Cheers,
Linus
Here’s a complete listing of the rpmforge releases.
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/
Just go here and find the appropriate one for your box.
thank you, it’s very useful
Hi Linux fans
I’m using Centos 6 :
Carl
Automation :
$ wget http://foo/bar.repo
# cp bar.repo /etc/yum.repods.d/
# rpm –import $(sed -n -e ‘/gpgkey/ s/.*= *//p’ bar.repo)
Taken from here : http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/84957
Thanks a lot mate! Great article.