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Installing RPMForge for CentOS 5.0

Posted July 3rd, 2007 by Ali Abdel-Aziz

CentOS 5

You should make sure that you have ProtectBase installed.

Protectbase

yum-protectbase is available in the CentOS 5 repositories: 

yum install yum-protectbase

Plugins are enabled in CentOS 5 by default.

Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and add the following line to the [base] and [update] and [centosplus] section: 

protect=1

Leave the [centosplus] section disabled: 

enabled=0

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and add the following line to the other sections 

protect=0

rpmforge

Download the rpmforge-release package. Choose one of the two links below, depending on your architecture. If you are unsure of which one to use you can check your architecture with the command uname -i

(You can find a complete list of rpmforge-release package packages at http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rpmforge-release/ but it is recommended that you use one of the two listed above).

Install DAG's GPG key 

rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

Verify the package you have downloaded 

rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm

Security warning: The rpmforge-release package imports GPG keys into your RPM database. As long as you have verified the package and trust Dag then it should be safe.

Install the package 

rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm

This will add a yum repository config file and import the appropriate GPG keys.

Test with this command: 

yum check-update

It should output these two lines: 

Loading "protectbase" plugin

...
76 packages excluded due to repository protections

The number above may differ, but there should be several packages shown as being excluded.

If so then it looks like things are working so try installing something like this 

yum install mplayer

REFRENCEShttp://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge#head-d766e7aacdee6150c6705d9369aa36c9bcabc139

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