How to install RPMforge Repository on CentOS 6.5

1. Introduction
In this post i will show on how to add the RPMforge repository into Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6) and also applicable on CentOS 6. RPMforge repository is a collaboration of Dag, Dries, and other packagers. This steps has been tested on RHEL 6 and should be working on CentOS 6. Assumed only one repository exist in /etc/yum.repos.d which is local yum repository using DVD Media.

2.Install RPMforge Repository on CentOS 6.5

Step 1. Download the rpmforge-release package

For 32 bits

wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm

For 64 bits

wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

Step 2 : Install RPMforge
For 32 bits

rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm

For 64 bits

rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

 Step 3: Proceed to configure RPMforge repository. Open the RPMforge configuration file and insert “priority=3″ after “enabled = 1″ in the [rpmforge] section as below :

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

### Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for RHEL 6 - dag
### URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/$basearch/rpmforge
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
priority=3
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

[rpmforge-extras]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - extras
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/$basearch/extras
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/mirrors-rpmforge-extras
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge-extras
enabled = 0
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

[rpmforge-testing]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - testing
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/$basearch/testing
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/mirrors-rpmforge-testing
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge-testing
enabled = 0
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1