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+title: Official community repositories
+author: Enno
+summary: OBS based community repositories for RPMs and DEBs
+---
+
+After a long time of not being able to provide community repositories that allow for seamless updates of Cobbler
+versions, we can finally announce that they are back!
+
+Here are the link for the different Cobbler versions[^1]:
+
+- Cobbler 3.0.x: <https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=cobbler&project=systemsmanagement%3Acobbler%3Arelease30>
+- Cobbler 3.1.x: <https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=cobbler&project=systemsmanagement%3Acobbler%3Arelease31>
+- Cobbler 3.2.x: <https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=cobbler&project=systemsmanagement%3Acobbler%3Arelease32>
+- Cobbler 3.3.x: <https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=cobbler&project=systemsmanagement%3Acobbler%3Arelease33>
+
+These repositories (and future ones for newer version of Cobbler) can be also found on our Website:
+
+- Cobbler 3: https://cobbler.github.io/downloads/2.x.x.html
+- Cobbler 2: https://cobbler.github.io/downloads/3.x.x.html
+
+In case you want to build the packages from source or locally for yourself you can find the instructions here:
+https://cobbler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation-guide.html
+
+### How to use the OBS repositories with the major package providers?
+
+OBS repositories offer the benefit that it automatically rebuilds your package based on updates of transitive
+dependencies. As such you can always be sure that your package is compatible with the installed software on your system. 
+
+#### openSUSE
+
+```shell
+zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:cobbler:<cobbler branch>/<os version>/systemsmanagement:cobbler:<cobbler branch>.repo
+zypper refresh
+zypper install cobbler
+```
+
+#### RedHat based distributions
+
+```shell
+cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
+wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:cobbler:<cobbler branch>/<os version>/systemsmanagement:cobbler:<cobbler branch>.repo
+yum install cobbler
+```
+
+#### Ubuntu
+
+```shell
+echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/cobbler:/<cobbler branch>/<os version>/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/systemsmanagement:cobbler:<cobbler branch>.list
+curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:cobbler:<cobbler branch>/<os version>/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/systemsmanagement_cobbler_<cobbler branch>.gpg > /dev/null
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install cobbler
+```
+
+### Closing remarks
+
+We do hope that those repositories find wider adoption for those people that either need a specific version of Cobbler
+or don't have Cobbler submitted in their operating system. Please do request support for new operating systems as a
+[GitHub Issue](https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/new?assignees=&labels=enhancement&projects=&template=02_feature_request.md&title=).
+
+Please don't attempt to use the RPMs for operating systems that they are not built for. It will cause issues that are
+hard to debug. We are attempting to progress a container based release for Cobbler that enables everyone to use it on
+their operating system of choice.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: These repositories are provided without any kind of warranty and "as is".