Creating YUM in Redhat makes the local installation of the packages much easy.
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Things to do
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- Mount the CDROM
- Copy packages and repodata directory locally.
- Create a yum file.
- Update the YUM list
Mount the CDROM.
I am showing two ways to access CDROM, so kindly use accordingly.
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[root@localhost /]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt #mounting CDROM in /mnt directory
[root@localhost /]# ls /mnt #check the CDROM contents
[root@localhost repodata]# cd /run/media/cyril/RHEL-7.1\ Server.x86_64/ #accessing the CDROM directly
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Create a new directory locally.
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[root@localhost repodata]# mkdir /packages
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Copy Packages and Repodata
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[root@localhost repodata]# cp /run/media/cyril/RHEL-7.1\ Server.x86_64/Packages /packages # copying the packages to the /packages directory(recommend in GUI with user login)
[root@localhost repodata]# cp -r /run/media/cyril/RHEL-7.1\ Server.x86_64/repodata/ /packages #copying the repodata directory to /packages directory so that we don’t need to create repodata
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Create YUM repo file.
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[root@localhost /]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ #moving to yum.repos.d directory
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# vim yum.repo #creating the repo file
[rhel 7]
name=”redhat enterprise 7″
baseurl=file:///packages/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
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You need to update your yum list
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yum update #will update the yum list
These two commands are not necessary but if it is not creating using the steps above then you need to run these commands.
rpm –ivh createrepo #you don’t need to run this command but if the you are not able to create the yum file then you need to go the /packages(directory where you have copied the packages) and run this command
createrepo –v /packages # only after running (rpm –ivh createrepo)
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