How To Enable or Disable CentOS Repositories
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I am sure most of you use many YUM repositories to install softwares on
any RPM based distributions like RHEL, CentOS, Fedora etc. Sometimes,
you might want to install a software from a group of specific repositories,
or you may want to disable all repositories, and install a package from a
single repository. If you ever wonder how to do that, here you go.
This short tutorial describes how to enable or disable a single or group of
YUM repositories while installing softwares in CentOS. This guide was
tested on CentOS 7 server, however the same method should work on
Fedora, RHEL, Scientific Linux, and other RPM based Linux distributions.
Let us get started.
As you already know, we can list the number of available repositories in
CentOS using the following command as root user:
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yum repolist
Sample output:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.vinahost.vn
* epel: mirror.rise.ph
* extras: mirrors.viethosting.vn
* remi-safe: rpms.remirepo.net
* updates: mirrors.vinahost.vn
repo id repo name status
base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 9,007
epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64
10,075
extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 305
remi-safe Safe Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 -
x86_64 820
updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 1,676
repolist: 21,883
As you see in the above output, I have added two more additional
repositories namely EPEL, and REMI. These are the important
repositories that provides packages which are not found in the CentOS
official repositories.
One thing is whenever you run “yum update” command, those additional
repositories will be updated. So, the packages from that repositories will
also be updated to the latest available versions. Sometimes, you don’t
want to install the latest packages, and want to stick with the old
versions instead. In such cases, you can exclude a repository, so that the
packages from that repositories will not be upgraded too. This will be
helpful when a software needs a particular version package to work well.
We can enable or disable repositories in two ways.
1. Temporarily enable or disable repositories while installing
packages using ‘yum’ command
2. Permanently Enable/Disable repositories using repository
configuration file
1. Enable or disable repositories temporarily
This is my preferred method. In this method, We can temporarily exclude
a repository to prevent a package from being updated.
Let us see an example.
yum --disablerepo=remi-safe update
Or,
yum update --disablerepo=remi-safe
The above command disable the REMI repository temporarily and update
out CentOS system.
To disable multiple repository, just include the repository separated by
comma as shown like below.
yum --disablerepo=remi-safe,updates update
The above command will disable REMI and updates (CentOS official
repository) temporarily.
You can use method to install a package too.
yum --disablerepo=remi-safe,updates install httpd
Sample output:
Similarly, you can both enable and disable a particular repositories at a
time with ‘yum’ command.
Take a look at the following command.
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel update
Sample output:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirror.pregi.net
No packages marked for update
The above command will disable all other repositories except the ‘epel’
repository.
2. Enable or disable a repository permanently
This method will permanently enable or disable a repository.
Usually, the repository configuration files will be saved in
the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.
Let us see the available repositories using command.
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
Sample output:
CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo epel-testing.repo
CentOS-CR.repo CentOS-Sources.repo remi-php70.repo
CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Vault.repo remi.repo
CentOS-fasttrack.repo epel.repo remi-safe.repo
Let us disable a repository, for example EPEL.
To do so, edit EPEL repository file:
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
Change the value enabled=1 to 0 (zero).
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/
7/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?
repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
Save and close the file. Update the repository lists to take effect the
changes.
yum repolist
Similarly, change the value of ‘enabled’ line to 1 to enable the
repository.
You know now how to enable or disable a particular or group of
repositories. As you can see in this tutorial, this is very easy to do. That’s
all for now. Hope this guide help you.
Cheers!
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