How to Install RPMForge Repository on CentOS and RHEL System

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. Using this article you can installed this repository on your system.

In this article I will provide you alternate way  to install RPMForge repository on CentOS and RHEL system.

Install RPMForge Repository

1. Download the latest rpmforge-release rpm from

http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/

2. Install rpmforge-release rpm:

# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release*rpm

For Example:

# wget http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPM                                                     S/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
--2017-11-23 22:51:09--  http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/R                                                     PMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Resolving ftp.tu-chemnitz.de... 134.109.228.1, 2001:638:911:b0e:134:109:228:1
Connecting to ftp.tu-chemnitz.de|134.109.228.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12640 (12K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm”

100%[======================================================>] 12,640      --.-K/s   in 0.001s

2017-11-23 22:51:10 (14.5 MB/s) - “rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm” saved [12640/1264                                                     0]

# rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
warning: rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79                                                     e6: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:rpmforge-release       ########################################### [100%]

Follow the below link to list all installed repository on your system.

• List of Installed Repositories