Available Repositories for CentOS

There are several repositories provided by CentOS and 3rd party developers that offer software packages that are not included in the default base and updates repositories. While the list below may not be 100% complete, it should be thorough, and provide a good working knowledge of what each repository offers. These repositories have varying levels of stability, support, and cooperation within the CentOS community.

Additional CentOS Provided Repositories


Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database support, a rebuilt kernel with added drivers and filesystem support, php5 and mysql5.


Popular packages from this repository include: The horde framework and packages, freenx, apt, XFCE, and yumex.





3rd Party Repositories

WARNING: These repositories are not provided nor supported by CentOS. If something from them breaks, you get to keep the pieces.

Note: You should seriously consider using the Priorities (or ProtectBase) yum plugin if you are going to use a 3rd Party Repository. (The Priorities and ProtectBase plugins both prevent 3rd party repos replacing base packages, but Priorities is much more flexible and therefore the recommended plugin.)


This repository is considered by many in the community to be stable and safe.


Note: - If you are planning to use this repository and have ProtectBase configured for your base repositories, you need to "protect" this repository also, as it has to overwrite at least two packages from the base distribution (namely mod_perl). And it has some contents that would be overwritten by the rpmforge repository, if the rt repository isn't "protected".

Note: - If you are using this repository and the rpmforge repository and you don't have the Protectbase or Priorities plugin installed, you have to put the following exclude into your /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo file:

exclude=perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder

Otherwise installation will complain about "Missing Dependency: perl(DBD::Oracle) is needed by package perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder."



Note: - This will update MANY items to newer versions including all of KDE, QT, samba, etc. This seems to work OK on all machines I have tried, but your machine will be far from CentOS with many changes to the [Base] CentOS Operating System. Information concerning setup is available here: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/


This repository has been reported to replace system packages and may cause stability issues. Use at your own risk. - this is only true for CentOS 4 and below.

The CentOS 5/RHEL 5 repository from atrpms.net is safe to use, if you only use the stable version. Packages in there do not overwrite system packages.

If you also enable testing and bleeding, you are on your own again - these two do overwrite system packages.



AdditionalResources/Repositories (last edited 2008-06-16 00:14:55 by AkemiYagi)