RPMForge provides lots of packages for CentOS and RHEL systems. RPMForge is a collaborating a Dog and other packages. But now RPMForge repository has been dis-continued. Please use another yum repository to install packages on your CentOS and RHEL system.
Follow the below link to install another repository.
Before dis-continued can install the RPMForge repository on your CentOS and RHEL system using below command.
On 32bit systems
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm # rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
On 64bit systems
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm # rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
After dis-continued RPMForge repository if you run the above command you may get below error.
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm --2017-11-24 00:35:03-- http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm Resolving pkgs.repoforge.org... 78.46.17.228 Connecting to pkgs.repoforge.org|78.46.17.228|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --2017-11-24 00:36:07-- (try: 2) http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
If you still want to install RPMForge repository on your system you can use alternate way. Follow the below command to install the RPMForge repository on your system.
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