Installing and Configuring REMI Repository for CentOS

Installing and Configuring REMI Repository for CentOS

Remi Repository

The Remi repository is a repository containing updated PHP and MySQL packages and is maintained by Remi. See the Remi Documentation for more information.

Requirements

• Install and Configure the Yum Priorities plug-in (Refer Further Reading section)
• Install and Configure the EPEL Repository (Refer Further Reading section)

Install Remi Repository

Download the latest Remi repository

wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/el5.x86_64/remi-release-5-8.el5.remi.noarch.rpm

Run the rpm install command

rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm

Configure Remi Repository

Open the Remi repository file

/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

Enable the Remi Repository

Change enabled=0 to enabled=1
Set priority for the Remi Repository
Add priority=3 to the end of the [remi] section

Further Reading:

1. Update CentOS
2. Install and Configure the Yum Priorities plug-in
3. Install and Configure the EPEL Repository
4. Installing and Configuring LAMP on CentOS