• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
The Electric Toolbox Blog

The Electric Toolbox Blog

Linux, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Javascript and PHP articles

  • Applications
  • FCKEditor
  • Apache
  • Windows
  • Contact Us
Home / Article / Linux/Unix/BSD / Add the RPMForge custom repository to CentOS

Add the RPMForge custom repository to CentOS

The RPMForge custom repository has a lot of useful software applications for CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux which aren’t included in the default repositories. This post looks at how to enable it.

First of all go to http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/ to work out which package you need to install. It has RPM packages for Red Hat Enteprise Linux 2.1 and up, Red Hat 7 to 9, and Fedora 1 to 3. If you’re running a CentOS box you want the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ones.

For example, if you want to install onto a CentOS 5.1 machine running the 32 bit version you want the Red Hat EL 5 – i386 rpm which you could download like so:

wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Now install it using rpm –install, substituting the filename below with the actual file you downloaded:

sudo rpm --install rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

If it installs successfully you won’t see any messages. You’ll just get the command line back again. The next time you go to install something with YUM the list of packages from rpmforge will be included.

Check Out These Related posts:

  1. Public key not installed error when installing from Dag RPM Repository
  2. How to change the remote url for your local git repository
  3. FCKEditor: Using a custom configuration file
  4. Specify custom styles with FCKeditor

Filed Under: Linux/Unix/BSD

Primary Sidebar

Categories

  • Apache
  • Applications
  • Article
  • Case Studies
  • Email Servers
  • FCKEditor
  • HTML And CSS
  • Javascript
  • Linux/Unix/BSD
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Miscellaneous Postings
  • MySql
  • Networking
  • Nginx Web Server
  • Offsite Articles
  • OSX
  • PHP
  • Quick Tips
  • RFC – Request for Comments
  • SilverStripe
  • VMWare
  • VPN
  • Windows
  • WordPress

Recent Posts

  • Vim Show Line Numbers
  • Add User To Group Linux
  • Chmod 777 Tutorial
  • How to Copy Directory Linux
  • Linux create user

Copyright © 2021. ElectricToolBox. All Rights Reserved.

  • Contact Us
  • Copyright Info
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap