{"id":6153,"date":"2016-08-07T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2016-08-07T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:47:18","slug":"local-yum-server-installation-and-configuration-rhel7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=6153","title":{"rendered":"Local YUM server installation and configuration – RHEL7"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum<\/b>) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for Linux operating systems using the RPM Package Manager. Though yum<\/b> has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to yum<\/b> functionality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Basically we will YUM to resolve the dependencies automatically and install them, Using YUM repository you can lot of time to install the packages and its dependencies.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>To build your local YUM server first you have copy all the packages from Installation media (RHEL 7 DVD).<\/p>\n

Make one directory to copy the RPM’s<\/p>\n

~]#mkdir \/rpms
\n~]#cp -v \/run\/media\/root\/RHEL7\/Packges\/* \/rpms<\/p>\n

After completion of copying the packages to \/rpms directory.<\/p>\n

install createrepo RPM
\n~]# rpm -ivh createrepo-0.9.9-23.el7.noarch.rpm<\/p>\n

After installation of above package edit the yum configuration file then add the following configuration lines.<\/p>\n

~]# cat \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/redhat.repo
\n[rhel7-tutorial]
\nname=rhel7-tutorial
\nbaseurl=file:\/\/\/rpms
\ngpgcheck=0
\nenabled=1<\/p>\n

now create repository using below command<\/p>\n

~]#createrepo \/rpms\/<\/p>\n

OR<\/b>
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\nyou can also use<\/p>\n

Change the directory path to \/rpms then run below command<\/p>\n

rpms]#createrepo –database \/rpms\/<\/p>\n

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Verify your packages using ~]#yum list all<\/p>\n

to know about any package and its usage<\/p>\n

~]#yum info dhcp-common<\/p>\n

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earch for particular package name so that it will give you list of packages which are available in the repository<\/p>\n

~]#yum list installed
\nCheck your installed packages using above command<\/p>\n

~]#yum remove PackageName
\nRemove mentioned package and its dependencies from server<\/p>\n

~]#yum list extras<\/div>\n

This command lists any installed package which no longer appears in any of your enabled repositories. Useful for finding packages which linger between upgrades or things installed not from a repo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~]#yum list obsoletes<\/div>\n

This command lists any obsoleting relationships between any available package and any installed package.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~]#yum list updates<\/div>\n

This command lists any package in an enabled repository which is an update for any installed package.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~]#yum list recent<\/div>\n

This command lists any package added to any enabled repository in the last seven(7) days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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~]#yum clean packages<\/div>\n
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This cleans up any cached packages in any enabled repository cache directory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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~]#yum clean metadata<\/div>\n
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This cleans up any xml metadata that may have been cached from any enabled repository.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

~]#yum clean dbcache<\/div>\n
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Yum will create or download some sqlite database files as part of its normal operation. This command clean up the cached copies of those from any enabled repository cache.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

~]#yum clean all<\/div>\n
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Clean all cached files from any enabled repository. Useful to run from time to time to make sure there is nothing using unnecessary space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for Linux operating systems using the RPM Package Manager. Though yum has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to yum functionality.<\/p>\n

Basically we will YUM to resolve the dependencies automatically and install them, Using YUM repository you can lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}