CentOS 7, additional third party external repositories

Add some useful external repositories to install useful third party software packages.

• install a plugin to add priorities to each installed repositories.

# yum -y install yum-plugin-priorities

set priority=1 to official repository

# sed -i -e "s/\]$/\]\npriority=1/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

• Add EPEL Repository which is provided from Fedora project.

# yum -y install epel-release

set priority=5

# sed -i -e "s/\]$/\]\npriority=5/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

change to enabled=0 and use it only when needed

# sed -i -e "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

if enabled=0, input a command to use the repository

# yum --enablerepo=epel install [Package]

• Add RPMforge Repository which provides many useful packages.

# yum -y install http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el7.rf.x86_64.rpm

Download and install DAG’s GPG key for your system.

# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
# rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

set priority=10

# sed -i -e "s/\]$/\]\npriority=10/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

change to enabled=0 and use it only when needed

# sed -i -e "s/enabled = 1/enabled = 0/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

if enabled=0, input a command to use the repository

# yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install [Package]