This tutorial describes how to add REMI repository which is created and maintained by a French guy named Remi Collect. REMI repository is free to use and is very stable.
You might want to look our previous tutorials about EPEL repository.
Install REMI Repository On RHEL / CentOS / Scientific Linux / Fedora
Please be mindful that you should use REMI repository along with EPEL repository. Otherwise you may end up with dependency problem sometimes.
On Fedora 20 i386 or x86_64:
# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-20.rpm # yum install remi-release-20.rpm
On Fedora 19 i386 or x86_64:
# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-19.rpm # yum install remi-release-19.rpm
On Fedora 18 i386 or x86_64:
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-18.rpm
On Enterprise Linux 6 i386 or x86_64:
# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm # rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm
# for RHEL only # rhn-channel --add --channel=rhel-$(uname -i)-server-optional-6
On Enterprise Linux 5 i386 or x86_64:
# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm # rpm -Uvh remi-release-5.rpm
Enable REMI repository
Edit file remi.repo,
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
Find the line enabled =0 and change it to 1 to enable REMI repository.
[...] enabled=1 [...]
Save and close the file.
Now list out the installed repositories with command:
# yum repolist
Sample output:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.leapswitch.com
* epel: epel.mirror.net.in
* extras: mirror.leapswitch.com
* remi: mirror.smartmedia.net.id
* updates: mirror.leapswitch.com
repo id repo name status
base CentOS-6 - Base 4,802
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - i386 8,385
extras CentOS-6 - Extras 12
remi Les RPM de remi pour Enterprise Linux 6 - i386 1,362
updates CentOS-6 - Updates 211
repolist: 14,772
Now you’re ready to install packages. You can install packages using command:
# yum install <package-name>
Cheers!
