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If you don't know what yum is, or if you don't have a working installation of yum, please follow the instructions on Using Fedora Legacy's yum for Red Hat Linux 7.x to get started (links to more appropriate docs, e.g. for apt and for other distribution releases should be included here as soon as the according docs are ready). They will help you setting up automatic package management on your system and keep it up-to-date. Using Fedora Legacy isn't a RPM package to download, but a process to understand. Our detailed HOWTO will provide all necessary information for you.

Installing Packages

In order to install packages from Fedora Legacy, you could manually download and install individual packages from the fedoralegacy.org tree, however it is recommended instead that you install one of the automatic package management programs apt or yum. Both apt and yum package managers handle automatic downloading and installation of packages you specify, and we provide apt/yum packages that are preconfigured to use the Fedora Legacy repositories. Please check the Documentation section for information on how to set up yum or apt on your machine.

Repository configurations

If you already have a working apt or yum installation on your system, you might want to include the following repository configuration into your existing configuration files.

If you're using apt, please add the line that matches your distributionto your /etc/apt/sources.list:

Red Hat Linux 7.2:

rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt redhat/7.2/i386 os updates legacy-utils

Red Hat Linux 7.3:

rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt redhat/7.3/i386 os updates legacy-utils

Red Hat Linux 8.0:

rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt redhat/8.0/i386 os updates legacy-utils

If you're using yum, please add the following blocks to your/etc/yum.conf (these work for all supported releases of Red Hat Linux):

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch 

[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch 

[legacy-utils]
name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch

However, we strongly suggest you to use our preconfigured yum package to make use of Fedora Legacy packages. Not only because it is preconfigured to use our repositories; we have added functionality to check the integrity and digital GnuPG signatures of our packages, which will highly reduce chances to get trojaned packages onto your system.

In the case you want to switch to our yum package, be aware that you have to manually migrate your existing repository configuration.

If you are already using another repository for official Red Hat packages and updates, please note the following:

You only need one repository providing the "os" aka "base" channel. If you already have a repository providing it, you may want to keep only one. The contents of this channels will never change.
"updates" is the channel we're using for Fedora Legacy updates. If you already have a repository providing a Red Hat "updates" channel, make sure that you keep only the "updates" channel from us and remove that channel from your other repository. Your former "updates" channel only provided Red Hat official updates. Your system will not receive legacy updates if you're using any other repository providing only official Red Hat updates! You have been warned.

What you can find in our repositories

Our repositories are hosted at http://download.fedoralegacy.org/ with support for the apt and yum update tools (as well as direct downloads). There is a tree for each supported OS version, and each of those trees has a standard set of sub-trees. Fedora Legacy updates will be published in the "updates" sub-tree along with any existing distribution updates.

In addition to the Fedora Legacy updates, there is other software available in different sub-trees. The sub-trees for each OS version supported are organized as follows:

os: Packages from the original distribution.
updates: All applicable updates from Red Hat, Fedora Core, and/or Fedora Legacy.
updates-testing: Updates from the Fedora Legacy Project currently in the testing phase before they are published for distribution.
legacy-utils: Support tools for Legacy servers such as yum, apt-get, etc.

Selecting a mirror

After installing apt or yum, you may optionally set it up to use some mirror sites. To setup mirror(s), please see the mirror list and choose the closest and fastest mirror(s) for your location. Then edit your client's configuration file (apt uses /etc/apt/sources.list while yum uses /etc/yum.conf) to use this mirror.

Manually downloading specific packages

If you don't want to use an automatic package management system, you can simply manually download specific packages. We highly suggest to subscribe to our fedora-legacy-announce list where we inform subscribers about new package releases.

You can manually browse http://download.fedoralegacy.org/ to download the packages you need.

Still missing information?

Don't hesitate to have look on our Documentation page for more information on using apt and yum.