CentOS RPMForge Installation Instructions (for Centos 6.x)

A quick guide to adding the RPMForge (RepoForge) third-party repository to your CentOS 6.x installation for access to additional packages.

Downloading RPMForge repo

cd /tmp # for 32 bit: wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm # for 64 bit: wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

Note: Visit here to see if newer version exist.

Installing RPMForge

rpm –import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

# for 32 bit: rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm # for 64 bit: rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

yum clean all

Open Extra Repo

If you want, you can enable the extra repo using:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d

edit using vi/vom/mc rpmforge.repo: change the enabled flag to enabled=1 in the section [rpmforge-extras].

Update all

yum update

That’s it!