[CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Michael Hennebry
<hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
>> name of the repository.   This will install the entry under
>> /etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg key for the rpms.  If you have a
>
> These, for example:
> [hennebry at localhost rpms]$ ls
> atrpms-repo-6-6.el6.i686.rpm  rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
> epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
> [hennebry at localhost rpms]$
> ?

Yes you can use a local copy of the rpm and either 'rpm -Uhv' it or
'yum localinstall' it.
or:

>> URL to the repo release rpm, yum can install for you  with:
>> yum install URL

If you have the http URL that you used to download the rpm manually,
you can just 'yum install URL".  Older versions of yum could not do
that so the documentation may not mention the simple approach.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com