Using RPMforge

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

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

Red Hat Linux

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