Top 5 Yum Repositories for CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5

Last updated March 28, 2018 by Rahul K.

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YUM ( Yellowdog Updater, Modified ) is a command-line package management utility for RPM-based Linux systems, It has been released under the GNU General Public License. Yum is useful for RPMs which have dependencies, Yum searches for all dependencies of any RPM in all available repositories.

Below list contains top 5 yum repositories (RPMFusin, EPEL, REMI, ELRepo, Webtatic) for RHEL based systems with installation links, which we need to keep our system up to date with latest packages. These repositories having most of the RPMs required for servers.

#1. Adding RPMFusin Repository

The RPM Fusion repository provides the packages that are not shipped with the Fedora or Red Hat. You can add RPMFusion yum repository by executing following commands based on your system OS version.

### For CentOS/RHEL 7 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm 
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm

### For CentOS/RHEL 6 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-6.noarch.rpm
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6.noarch.rpm

### For Fedora 27/26/25/24/23 ###
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

#2. Adding EPEL Repository

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a group that maintains the latest packages to their repository. It also contains the extra packages required for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL) or Oracle Linux (OL).

Use following commands to install EPEL yum repository on your CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 systems.

### For CentOS/RHEL 7 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/e/epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm

### For CentOS/RHEL 6 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck  http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

#3. Adding REMI Repository

REMI is also a useful yum repository contains updated packages for Enterprise Linux systems. Use the following commands to install REMI yum repository on your CentOS/RHEL 7/6 and Fedora 27/26/25/24 systems.

### For CentOS/RHEL 7 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

### For CentOS/RHEL 6 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

### Fedora 27/26/25/24 ###
sudo dnf install http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/remi-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).rpm

#4. Adding ELRepo Repository

ELRepo is an RPM repository for Enterprise Linux packages.It supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives like CentOS, Scientific Linux etc. This Project focuses on hardware related packages to enhance your experience with Enterprise Linux. This includes filesystem drivers, graphics drivers, network drivers, sound drivers, webcam and video drivers.

### For CentOS/RHEL 7 ###
sudo rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-3.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm

### For CentOS/RHEL 6 ###
sudo rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
sudo rpm -Uvh  http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-8.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm

#5. Adding Webtatic Repository

Webtatic is a yum repository generally deals with the web hosting related packages, which is not included with CentOS/RHEL repositories. Execute one of the following commands to install REMI yum repository on your CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 systems.

### For CentOS/RHEL 7 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm

### For CentOS/RHEL 6 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

### For CentOS/RHEL 5 ###
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/el5/latest.rpm

Thanks for reading this article. Read next article to setup your CentOS/RHEL system to keep packages up to date.

Rahul K.

I, Rahul Kumar am the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as an IT professional since 2009..

14 Comments

Faizan Ahemad Reply to Faizan
July 22, 2017 at 8:18 am
For RHEL 5 EPEL now you need
sudo rpm -Uvh http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
The link has changed
Eric Baranowski Reply to Eric
June 9, 2016 at 1:07 pm
I know this post is old, but figured I’d update a couple links for anyone finding themselves here…
I’m running CentOS 7.2
2. Adding EPEL Repository
CentOS/RHEL 7
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-rpm-macros-7-8.noarch.rpm
4. Adding ATrpms Repository
CentOS/RHEL 7 x86 64bit:
# rpm -Uvh https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.atrpms.net/src/el7-x86_64/atrpms/stable/atrpms-repo-7-7.src.rpm
Shahid Reply to Shahid
January 29, 2016 at 10:22 pm
very informative. It would be nice to give few examples how to use these repositories that would help a lot newbies
skowroniasty Reply to skowroniasty
December 28, 2015 at 7:55 am
http://li.nux.ro/repos.html
WB Reply to WB
September 11, 2015 at 3:45 pm
Alternatively: yum -y install epel-release
alimp5 Reply to alimp5
July 26, 2015 at 12:43 pm
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Yadheeesh Reply to Yadheeesh
June 18, 2015 at 10:37 am
Very Useful post for the YUM configuration
Alex Reply to Alex
August 22, 2014 at 7:24 pm
Hello, when will those repo become available for CentOS 7 ?
Thank you
SOUFIANE Reply to SOUFIANE
July 28, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Hi,
I found this mirror, replace it in your post :
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.neu.edu.cn/CentALT/6/x86_64/centalt-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
Thanks for the great content 😉
Cheers.
- Rahul Reply to Rahul
  July 29, 2014 at 7:24 am
  Hi Soufiane
  That will create repository file in system. But actual repository is still down.
  - Dmytro Reply to Dmytro
    July 15, 2015 at 9:46 am
    Here is content of working repo file:
    [CentALT]
    name=CentALT Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 – $basearch
    baseurl=http://mirror.neu.edu.cn/CentALT/6/$basearch/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0
Tim McManus Reply to Tim
May 31, 2014 at 2:51 pm
http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/6/x86_64/
This RPM seems like it will no longer be available. The link is broken and it seems like the maintainer wants donations to maintain the project.
You might want to remove this RPM.
Ozuola Reply to Ozuola
May 31, 2014 at 8:32 am
News to the world of Linux. Just wondering if the Adding CentAlt Repository is the same as the Adding CentOS Repository.Sorry if my question sound stupid.
Vivek Bhat Reply to Vivek
May 29, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Nice list, but it would have been good if you could also list the use of these repos. I have been using openSUSE since ages and frankly other Linux distros are alien to me. Trying CentOS 6.4 right now, but I am a little lost 🙂