How do you add a package (or a mirror?) if the .rpm youre looking for isnt availabe in your VM build of CentOS?

Question

I have yum and rpm, and I really only how to install packages using these commands. When I tried to yum install figlet on a new CentOS6 virtual machine it couldn't find it in the mirrors list. I tried to localinstall a figlet package but it wasnt signed and yum wouldnt install it.

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better yet how do you got about adding a package (or a mirror?) if the .rpm youre looking for isnt availabe in your VM build of CentOS?

In this case I want to add figlet and toilet!

UPDATE If I install a package manually, do I need to do it from a particular directory? or does Yum/RPM have a dir they always use automagically?

Answer 1

Here you can download the figlet packge and install it with rpm -U or rpm -ivh package.rpm, or do yum localinstall --nogpgcheck packgename.

You don't need to run the yum command from a particular directory.

As a general recommendation, I encourge you to add the RpmForge repos to you centos installation, since it includes a lot of programs.