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Enable REMI repository in a CentOS server

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Published on: September 13, 2014 by Arnold Pablo

Enable REMI repository in a CentOS server

Scenario:

Enable remi repo

The remi repository provides a variety of up-to-date packages that are useful or are a requirement for many popular web-based services.  That means it generally is not a bad idea to enable  remi repo by default. Depending on the architecture of your server (Output of uname -a reveals it) , install the RPM from http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories (Ctrl + F for remi). REMI repo depends on EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) which can be again installed using the packages obtainable from the above link.

I am here explaining how to enable it on a CentOS 6 server. This may change slightly depending on the CentOS version and architecture. Mine if an x86_64 architecture as well.

NB : Below commands has to be read first and then only to be executed. Certain steps are shown just to be informative.

[root@minor ~]# uname -a
Linux minor.detectivegroup.co.uk 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:19:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@minor ~]# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/6/remi/x86_64/remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch.rpm
 rpm -qpl remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch.rpm
 warning: remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 00f97f56: NOKEY
 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
 /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

Now let us proceed with the installation

[root@minor ~]# rpm -ivh remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch.rpm
warning: remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 00f97f56: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
epel-release >= 6 is needed by remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch

[root@minor ~]# wget -c http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
[root@minor ~]# rpm -qpl epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
warning: epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 0608b895: NOKEY
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
/etc/rpm/macros.ghc-srpm
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
/usr/share/doc/epel-release-6
/usr/share/doc/epel-release-6/GPL
[root@minor ~]# rpm -ivh remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch.rpm epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

 

Now, open the /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo repository file using a text editor of your choice:

# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

 

Edit the [remi] portion of the file so that the enabled option is set to 1. This will enable the remi repository.

name=Les RPM de remi pour Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/$releasever/remi/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/$releasever/remi/mirror
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
failovermethod=priority

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Arnold Pablo

Arnold Pablo

Technology always fascinated me and continues to do so. I started my career back in 2004 as a Junior System Admin and worked in various capacities both in technical and managerial roles. I love to experiment and try out new OSS projects and in free time, go for cycling to the interiors of God's own country, Kerala!

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