How To Enable RPM Fusion Repository In Fedora, RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux

Last Updated on May 11, 2023 by itsubuntu

How To Enable RPM Fusion Repository In Fedora, RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux

RPM Fusion repository is a community-maintained third-party software repository. RPM Fusion provides packages that is not available to Fedora project and Red Hat due to the issues like propriety, closed-source, or any legal issues.

How To Enable RPM Fusion Repository In Fedora, RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux

RPM Fusion has two repositories namely "free" and "nonfree".

How To Enable RPM Fusion Repository in Fedora Linux 38

Run the following command to enable the free and the nonfree RPM Fusion repositories :

$ sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Meanwhile, if you want to enable “Free” RPM Fusion Repo then run the following command:

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

For “nonfree” RPM Fusion Repo, run the following command:

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Now, after enabling the repos, Run the following command to find the list of installed repositories in Fedora:

dnf repolist

How To Enable RPM Fusion Repository in RHEL 8, CentOS 8, AlmaLinux 8, Rocky Linux 8

At first, you need to  enable [EPEL] repository before enabling RPM Fusion repository. Run the following command to enable EPEL:

sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm

Now, run the following command to enable RPM Fusion repository in RHEL 8, CentOS 8, AlmaLinux 8, Rocky Linux 8.

sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm

Run the following command to see the list of installed repos in RHEL.

dnf repolist

Or,

yum repolist

How To Disable RPM Fusion Repositories

Run the following command to disable RPM fusion repositories

To disable both free and non-free RPM Fusion repositories:

$ sudo yum-config-manager --disable rpmfusion-free-updates

$ sudo yum-config-manager --disable rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

To enable free and non-free repositories:

$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable rpmfusion-free-updates

$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable rpmfusion-nonfree-updates