Creating a Local Yum Repository on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (mounting CD Rom / ISO image)
Before going in details how to create local YUM repository… little information about YUM.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop version for x86-64. All of Red Hat's official support and training, together with the Red Hat Certification Program, focuses on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Now download the latest RHEL 7.6 ISO image file from the RedHat Download Center using a Red Hat Subscription or a Red Hat Evaluation Subscription. Once you’ve downloaded RHEL 7.6 ISO, run the following command to upgrade to RHEL 7.6 using the Red Hat upgrade tool and reboot after the upgrade process is completed. Make sure to specify the.
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YUM – Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum) is an open-source command-line package management utility.
Yum is the primary tool for installing, deleting, querying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux RPM software packages from Official as well as third party repositories.
Mount CD ROM as local repository inRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Please put the Red hat 6 DVD inside CDROM. Open terminal and go to root prompt
now to save and exit from vi editor command is :wq
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Done !
Mount the ISO image file as local repository inRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Before going in details… little information about ISO.
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ISO Image – It’s a type of disk image file composed of the data contents from every written sector on an optical disc.
it’s now mounted the Red hat 6 iso image file
Now create a new local.repo file and add the local repository path.
now to save and exit from vi editor command is :wq
Let’s add an entry in /etc/fstab so that the system always mounts the DVD image after a restart of machine.
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