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My cheatsheet

This is my cheatsheet for setting up distribution using rpm. I am more experienced with distributions using dpkg, so I need this a little in the beginning.

Installing Virtualbox guest additions

Start by installing dkms from EPEL.

rpm -i <package downloaded from EPEL link above>
yum install dkms
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install kernel-devel

Press HOST + D and cd to the mount point and run the Linux Additions installer.

Enabling other repositories

For EPEL follow the first steps for Virtualbox guest additions installing above.

RPMGforge

Download the package and install it with

rpm -i <package>

yum-plugin-priorities

Using multiple 3rd party repositories (EPEL, RPMforge) is dangerous so you must use priorities to be safe.

yum install yum-plugin-priorities

Ensure that it’s enabled by looking at /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf . It should read

[main]
enabled=1

Now the plugin should be working and you must assign priorities.

Edit the following files:

/etc/yum/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
/etc/yum/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
/etc/yum/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
/etc/yum/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

and add

priority=X

to end of every section where X is replaced with actual priority.

CentOS wiki suggests the following priorities:

CentOS-Base: everything is priority=1 except contrib priority=2

Third party repositories (EPEL,rpmforge) should b > 10 and other should be more preferred than other. I used

epel 10 rpmforge 11

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