Local Yum Setup for RHEL

This article helps you in YUM setup in RHEL enviroments

1. Create RPM directory

#mkdir /RPMS

2. Copy all the rpm packages from disk to/RPMS directory

3. install createrepo rpm

#rpm -ivh createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm

4. createrepo # createrepo /RPMS

5. create a local repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d

#vi /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo & save the below lines

[local]
name=RHEL-$releasever - Local
baseurl=file:///RPMS/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
6. #yum makecache

Enjoy software updates locally.

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