{"id":143,"date":"2015-04-27T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betakb.veeble.org\/?p=143"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:34:56","slug":"adding-additional-repositories-in-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veeble.com\/kb\/adding-additional-repositories-in-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding additional repositories in CentOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following yum command displays all the repositories available on your system. As you see below, it has three CentOS-6 repositories (base, extras, and updates). This doesn\u2019t have EPEL enabled yet.<\/p>\n<pre># yum repolist\nrepo id          repo name                   status\nbase             CentOS-6 - Base             6,294\nextras           CentOS-6 - Extras               4\nupdates          CentOS-6 - Updates            830\nrepolist: 7,128\n<\/pre>\n<p>Everything that you need to install may not be available in the default OS repository. You will need to add\/enable extra repositories.<\/p>\n<div id=\"toc\" class=\"toc\">\n<div id=\"toctitle\">\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-1\"><a href=\"#Adding_RPMForge_Respository\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">1<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Adding RPMForge Respository<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-2\"><a href=\"#Adding_Atomic_repository\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">2<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Adding Atomic repository<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-3\"><a href=\"#Adding_EPEL_repository\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">3<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Adding EPEL repository<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-4\"><a href=\"#Enabling_additional_CentOS_repositories.\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">4<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Enabling additional CentOS repositories.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"Adding_RPMForge_Respository\" class=\"mw-headline\">Adding RPMForge Repository<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For i386 \/ i686<\/p>\n<pre>rpm -Uhv <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/apt.sw.be\/redhat\/el5\/en\/i386\/rpmforge\/RPMS\/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/apt.sw.be\/redhat\/el5\/en\/i386\/rpmforge\/RPMS\/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n<p>For x86_64<\/p>\n<pre>rpm -Uhv <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/apt.sw.be\/redhat\/el5\/en\/x86_64\/rpmforge\/RPMS\/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/apt.sw.be\/redhat\/el5\/en\/x86_64\/rpmforge\/RPMS\/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span id=\"Adding_Atomic_repository\" class=\"mw-headline\">Adding Atomic repository in CentOS<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To enable access to both the atomic yum repository use the following automated installer:<\/p>\n<pre>wget -q -O - <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicorp.com\/installers\/atomic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.atomicorp.com\/installers\/atomic<\/a> | sh\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span id=\"Adding_EPEL_repository\" class=\"mw-headline\">Adding EPEL repository<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux.<\/p>\n<p>First, you need to enable the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/en\/blog\/whats-epel-and-how-do-i-use-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPEL<\/a> repository on your system. You don\u2019t need to configure this repository manually in your yum. Instead, download the following package and install it, which will enable the EPEL repository on your system.<\/p>\n<pre><a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/ftp.jaist.ac.jp\/pub\/Linux\/Fedora\/epel\/6\/i386\/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ftp.jaist.ac.jp\/pub\/Linux\/Fedora\/epel\/6\/i386\/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm<\/a> \u2013 Install this on your RHEL 6 (or CentOS 6)\n<\/pre>\n<pre><a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/mirrors.ispros.com.bd\/fedora-epel\/5\/i386\/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mirrors.ispros.com.bd\/fedora-epel\/5\/i386\/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm<\/a> - Install this on your RHEL 5 (or CentOS 5)\n<\/pre>\n<p>Download and install the appropriate RPM.<\/p>\n<pre>rpm -ivh epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm\n<\/pre>\n<p>Done! Check the result of the <b>Yum repolist<\/b> to confirm.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Enabling_additional_CentOS_repositories.\" class=\"mw-headline\">Enabling additional CentOS repositories.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Edit the file <b>\/etc\/yum.repos.d\/CentOS-Base.repo<\/b> and change <i><b>enabled=0<\/b><\/i> to <i><b>enabled=1<\/b><\/i> to enable a repository.<\/p>\n<pre>#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages\n[centosplus]\nname=CentOS-$releasever - Plus\nmirrorlist=<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=centosplus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=centosplus<\/a>\n#baseurl=<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/mirror.centos.org\/centos\/$releasever\/centosplus\/$basearch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mirror.centos.org\/centos\/$releasever\/centosplus\/$basearch\/<\/a>\ngpgcheck=1\nenabled=0\ngpgkey=file:\/\/\/etc\/pki\/rpm-gpg\/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5\n<\/pre>\n<pre>#contrib - packages by Centos Users\n[contrib]\nname=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib\nmirrorlist=<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=contrib\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=$releasever&amp;arch=$basearch&amp;repo=contrib<\/a>\n#baseurl=<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/mirror.centos.org\/centos\/$releasever\/contrib\/$basearch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mirror.centos.org\/centos\/$releasever\/contrib\/$basearch\/<\/a>\ngpgcheck=1\nenabled=0\ngpgkey=file:\/\/\/etc\/pki\/rpm-gpg\/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you need any further assistance, feel free to contact Veeble support!!<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-call-to-action uagb-block-fbfb18b3 wp-block-button\"><div class=\"uagb-cta__wrap\"><h3 class=\"uagb-cta__title\">Take Control with cPanel<\/h3><p class=\"uagb-cta__desc\">Trust in our dependable cPanel hosting. 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