How to Add Remi Yum Repository on CentOS 6.3

This post cover the steps to install remi repository on linux CentOS 6.3 server. There are several 3rd party repositories for CentOS 6 server. One of the popular one is remi repository. The Remi repository is a repository containing updated PHP and MySQL packages and is maintained by Remi.

1. Import the RPM-GPG-KEY key and

[root@centos63 ~]# rpm --import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

2. Download remi rpm package :

[root@centos63 ~]# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Examples :

[root@centos63 ~]# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
--2012-08-10 00:04:32--  http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Resolving rpms.famillecollet.com... 88.191.74.232, 2a01:e0b:1:74:2e0:f4ff:fe1b:b827
Connecting to rpms.famillecollet.com|88.191.74.232|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5292 (5.2K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: âremi-release-6.rpmâ

100%[==========================================================>] 5,292       --.-K/s   in 0.02s

2012-08-10 00:04:33 (280 KB/s) - âremi-release-6.rpmâ

3. Install remi rpm package :

[root@centos63 ~]# rpm -ivh remi-release-6.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:remi-release           ########################################### [100%]

4. Start install using Yum :

[root@centos63 ~]# yum install --enablerepo=remi httpd

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