Centos 7 uses 163 yum Source

Centos 7 uses 163 yum Source

This article describes how to use the 163 yum source.

Download. you can install the repo source, but sometimes we need to install some additional Packages, so we need to download the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) source. for example, if we need to install ansible with yum, We need to install epel.

1. Install the repo source.

   The repo source generally includes three parts: base, updates, and Extras.
   $ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ wget http://mirrors.163.com/.help/CentOS7-Base-163.repo
   If there are other sources, you can temporarily rename them as other extensions, such as centos-base.repo.bak
   $ mv CentOS7-Base-163.repo CentOS7-Base.repo
$ yum clean all
$ yum makecache

2. Install the epel source.

   $ yum install epel-release
$ yum makecache

3. Check whether the installation is successful

   $ yum repolist

   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacksLoading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: ftp.cuhk.edu.hkrepo id                                               repo name                                                                           statusbase/7/x86_64                                         CentOS-7 - Base - 163.com                                                            9,007epel/x86_64                                           Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                      10,133extras/7/x86_64                                       CentOS-7 - Extras - 163.com                                                            310updates/7/x86_64                                      CentOS-7 - Updates - 163.com                                                         1,687repolist: 21,137

   From the above output, we can see that we have installed three parts of repo: base, updates, Extras. While EPEL is installed with epel.