Epel yum repository is an open source centos yum repository or rpm repository for developers and system administrators to perform the installation of RPM packages via yum on their virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated server. EPEL yum repository is redhat yum repository for CentOS and additional yum repository for the existing CentOS repository. It […]
If you have installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) but do not have access to the redhat official repo, you will encounter problems installing and updating software. To solve the above problems, I have prepared a short step to update and install the RPM package from the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM image for RHEL 7. This […]
EPEL repository is another extra repository that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS server. By using EPEL repository you can install some other third party software such as nagios, or bugzilla, phpmyadmin, or any other […]
This post will show how you can update CentOS 6.4 system with ‘yum‘ command. You should update the linux to newer release or latest linux kernal because you will get security fixes, stability improvements, updated device drivers, get new kernel functions and to increased speed of the linux operating system. After get all above benefits, […]
CentOS 6.3 had released on 2012-07-09 with the kernel version 2.6.32-279. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by our Upstream OS Provider (UOP). For version CentOS-4.x and CentOS-5.x, it is recommend to reinstall rather than attempt an inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 to CentOS 6.3. Direct […]
The priorities plugin can be used to enforce ordered protection of repositories, by associating priorities to repositories. Theoretically, the repositories with the lowest numerical priority number have the highest priority. This is one of the method to prevents mistakes such as accidentally running yum upgrade with everything. This post cover the quick step to install […]
This post covers the steps on how to setup additional yum repository using Webtatic. Webtatic yum repository is a repository containing updated web-related packages for CentOS and Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Webtatic goals are to provide CentOS/RHEL administrators with the latest stable minor releases of web development/hosting software, which are not provided in CentOS/RHEL distribution […]
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 […]
This post will covers on how to install and configure the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository on CentOS 6.3. EPEL repository is another extra repository that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS server. […]
RPMforge repository is a collaboration of Dag, Dries, and other packagers. The default RPMforge repository does not replace any CentOS base packages. This post covers the steps to configure RPMforge repository on linux CentOS 6.3. This steps has been tested on CentOS 6.3 and should be working on Redhat linux Enterprise 6. 1. Download the […]
This post will covers the basic steps to configure and setup local yum repository from DVD/CDROM on linux CentOS 6.3. By using, local yum repository, you can perform install and update the RPM packages easily even though the CentOS server running behind proxy or does not have internet connection. 1. Insert DVD/ISO into DVD-Drive. 2. […]
RPMforge repository is a collaboration of Dag, Dries, and other packagers. In this post i will show on how to install and configure RPMforge repository on linux CentOS 5.8 server. This steps has been tested on CentOS 5.8 and may working on CentOS 6.x as well. 1. Download the rpmforge-release package [root@centos58 ~]# wget http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt […]