There are several 3rd party repositories for CentOS 6 server. One of the popular one is remi repository. The Remi repository is a repository containing updated PHP and MySQL packages and is maintained by Remi. In this post, i will show you on how to install remi repository on linux CentOS 6.2 server
Import the RPM-GPG-KEY key and install remi rpm package :
[root@centos62 ~]# rpm --import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
[root@centos62 ~]# rpm -ivh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Retrieving http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:remi-release ########################################### [100%]
To enable this repo, please change “enabled” value to 1 :
[remi]
name=Les RPM de remi pour Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/$releasever/remi/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/$releasever/remi/mirror
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
failovermethod=priority
[remi-test]
name=Les RPM de remi en test pour Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/$releasever/test/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/$releasever/test/mirror
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi