Install 3rd party repository manually..

umairbari

Let us say you would like to install 3rd party repository from foo.nixcraft.com.

Create a file called foo:

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d

# vi foo

Append following code:

[foo]

name=Foo for RHEL/ CentOS $releasever - $basearch

baseurl=http://foo.nixcraft.com/centos/$releasever/$basearch/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=http://foo.nixcraft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt

Save and close the file.

Where,

* [foo] : Repository name i.e. The [main] section must exist for yum to do anything.

* name=Foo for RHEL/ CentOS $releasever - $basearch : A human readable string describing the repository name

* baseurl=http://foo.nixcraft.com/centos/$releasever/$basearch/ : Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s ‘repodata’ directory lives

* enabled=1 : Enabled or disabled repo. To disable the repository temporarily, set the enabled to 0

* gpgcheck=1 : Security feature, use GPG key

* gpgkey=http://foo.nixcraft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt : GPL file location

Also you need to import the gpg key for the repository as follows:

# rpm --import http://foo.nixcraft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt

Now you are ready to install software from foo repository.

For further information refer to yum.conf man page:

# man yum.conf

# man yum

Hope this tip will help you to configure repository as and when required.