CREATE YUM REPOSITORY IN RHEL5.0

YUM  USES RHN BY DEFAULT. THIS ARTICLE SHOW YOU; HOW TO SETUP LOCAL REPOSITORY TO USE YUM .

STEPS FOR CREATING YUM REPO..................................

1. Insert RHEL5.0 dvd in dvd-drive.
2. Mount it and copy its contents as shown in figure.

Copy DVD

3. Now create a new directory "RHCE" in /opt.

4. Paste dvd contents in "/opt/RHCE".

DVD Contents

5. Now open "/opt/RHCE/Server" and right click to open terminal from here.

Opening Terminal

6. Proceed with the following commands...........

• #rpm -ivh createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6.noarch.rpm 
• #createrepo -v /opt/RHCE/Server
• #nano /etc/yum.repos.d/Server.repo

 >[Server]

>name=Red

>baseurl=file:///opt/RHCE/Server

>enabled=1

>gpgcheck=0

now save and exit from nano.

Nano Editor

• #yum clean all
• #yum update

7. Now open Package manager to check   

Add/Remove Software