Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Red Hat EL 6.0 : Add a new yum repository.

Example shows how to install VirtualBox.
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# nano virtualbox.repo
Save the following text in the file.
[virtualbox]
name=RHEL/CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
Import gpgkey.

# rpm --import http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc

Now you can install software with yum.

# yum install /tmp/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.10_72479_rhel6-1.x86_64.rpm 

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