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

• 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