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-0.5.1-1.$dist.rf.$arch.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.$dist.rf.$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
- RHEL4 / CentOS-4
- RHEL3 / CentOS-3