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RPMforge is a collaboration of Dag, Dries, and other packagers. They provide over 4000 packages for CentOS, including mplayer, xmms-mp3, and other popular media tools. Visit the RPMforge Website for more information.

Requirements

• Install and Configure the Yum Priorities plugin

Install RPMforge Repository on CentOS

1. Download the RPMforge-release package
   i386: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
   x86_64: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
2. Install DAG’s GPG Key
   rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
3. Verify the package you have downloaded
   rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
4. Install the package
   rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
5. Delete the downloaded RPMforge-release package

Configure RPMforge Repository on CentOS

1. Open the RPMforge configuration file
   /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
2. Add the following text to the end of the RPMForge repository entry
   priority=3
3. Check that you got the priorities set correctly
   yum check-update
   You should output similar to the following:
   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
   …
   469 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

References

• RPMforge CentOS Wiki