How to install xsos or rsar via yum?

[ryran]

Downloading files with wget is great and all, but how can we install xsos or rsar with yum?

[ryran]

Yum Repo + RPM

There's a Fedora/RHEL6+ yum repository @ people.redhat.com/rsawhill/rpms which contains potentially not-as-bleeding-edge RPMs for xsos and rsar (they are regularly updated, but won't always be the latest version).

To configure access to the yum repo and install xsos + rsar:

1. Use the which command to find and remove any manually-installed versions of xsos or rsar along with any existing bash_completion files (might be necessary to run the following as normal AND root user)

   rm $(which xsos) $(which rsar) /etc/bash_completion.d/{xsos,rsar}-bash-completion.bash
   

2. As root, run the following:

   yum install http://people.redhat.com/rsawhill/rpms/latest-rsawaroha-release.rpm
   yum install xsos rsar
   

Finally: run xsos -h or rsar -h as a normal user to see their help pages and get started.

[ryran]

Note for the cautious/paranoid: all the RPMs uploaded there are signed with my (ryran AKA rsaw AKA Ryan Sawhill Aroha) personal GPG key which the rsawaroha-release rpm installs to /etc/pki/rpm-gpg and which yum will prompt to import. Same key also available on main page at b19.org.

[86Luca86]

Hello Ryan,
I want to tell you that the "http://people.redhat.com/rsawhill/rpms/latest-rsawaroha-release.rpm" url isn't available anymore, instead we should use the https protocol.

[superjamie]

Ryan has not maintained the RPM release for many years. I will remove that from the documentation.