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RPMforge howto

The RPMforge project is an open source project that provides RPM packages for various distributions (RH, CentOS, Fedora, …). To enable RPMforge you can install the rpmforge-release package for your distribution.

For RHEL5 / CentOS-5:
i386

# wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

x86_64

# wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

For older releases (RHEL 4 / CentOS 4) please follow the instructions available on RPMrepo Wiki

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