Migrate from RHEL6 to CentOS6 repos

Damn that RHN subscription

Note : The rpm versions keep changing with every package update and might be out of date. You can check the correct current versions by going here

While the instructions on the CentOS wiki are pretty good, they seem to be lacking removal of redhat-release-server, which is required to actually move to RHEL to CentOS repos. This is an updated version of that page, with slightly fewer commands.

yum remove rhnlib abrt-plugin-bugzilla redhat-release-notes*
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release redhat-release-server redhat-indexhtml
yum localinstall http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-6-5.el6.centos.11.1.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-indexhtml-6-1.el6.centos.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum upgrade

You should have moved completely from RHEL packages to CentOS packages at the end of this step. Please note that these instructions are for x86_64, you need to replace ‘x86_64’ with ‘i386’ in the urls if you are on a 32-bit system.