• RPMforge
• Using

Using RPMforge

To enable RPMforge you can install the rpmforge-release package for your distribution.

Installing the rpmforge-release package

Download the correct package below and install the package by doing:

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.$dist.rf.$arch.rpm
rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.$dist.rf.$arch.rpm

WARNING Substitute the URL in the example with the exact one from below, else it will not work.

This will install the repository for smart, apt and yum. For up2date a manual intervention is required.

Distributions

RHEL / CentOS

TIP For CentOS Yum users there is a very good document on how to enable RPMforge safely using the Yum priorities plugin

• RHEL5 / CentOS-5

  • i386: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

  • x86_64: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

• RHEL4 / CentOS-4

  • i386: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

  • x86_64: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm

• RHEL3 / CentOS-3

  • i386: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm

  • x86_64: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el3.rf.x86_64.rpm

• RHEL2.1 / CentOS-2

  • i386: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el2.rf.i386.rpm

Red Hat Linux

• Red Hat 9

  • i386: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.rh9.rf.i386.rpm

• Red Hat 7.3

  • i386: http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.rh7.rf.i386.rpm

Fedora

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