How to add a CentOS repo, having URL of Packages

centos package-management yum rpm repository

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Solution 1

I had to add a new repo file: e.g. /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepo.repo with repo configuration:

[myrepo]
name=My extras packages for CentOS 7.4.1708
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.4.1708/extras/x86_64/
enabled=1

Then, to install for example docker-1.12.6-55.gitc4618fb.el7.centos run:

$ sudo yum install -y docker-1.12.6-55.gitc4618fb.el7.centos

Options --disablerepo=* with --enablerepo=myrepo can be used to enforce only the new repo file to be considered.

--- UPDATE ---

Package version 7.4.1708 doesn't exist anymore in mirror.centos.org. You should rather use: baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/7.4.1708/extras/x86_64/

Solution 2

Yum utils is a package which provides yum-config-manager. A quick and easy way to add a repo without the hassle writing a repo file and enabling is to use this as a sudo user

yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://vault.centos.org/centos/7.4.1708/extras/x86_64/

This will create the file and enable it for you.

P.S. Guide to install yum-utils if you don't have it already. It's part of the base CentOS repo. Usually on most yum systems, yum-utils is a must have!

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forzagreen

Data Engineer

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

forzagreen over 1 year

In Centos 7, I want to install some packages that I see in the following URL: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.4.1708/extras/x86_64/Packages/

How can I add this URL to my yum package manager ?

PS: downloading a single rpm file doesn't work, because it looks recursively for dependencies with the same version.
- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams almost 6 years
  
  That repo is already in the base set of repos for CentOS 7.
- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams almost 6 years
  
  Why do you want to pin the repo to a specific version?
- forzagreen almost 6 years
  
  I want a specific package version that exists only in this repo version.
- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams almost 6 years
  
  Force the releasever and then pin the package.
- forzagreen almost 6 years
  
  @IgnacioVazquez-Abrams can you give an example please ?
- mattdm almost 6 years
  
  That's an entirely different question than the one in the question title or body.
mattdm almost 6 years

Since this is an official repository, that seems unnecessary.
vonbrand almost 6 years

The question was about unofficial repositories...
pacoverflow over 5 years

I was trying to install lftp. I found that the name of the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d and the name within brackets in the file does not matter. Then all I needed to install lftp was to run sudo yum install lftp.