Using Yum In RedHat Without A Subscription

If You use redhat 5 or 6 and dont have a subscription but would like to use yum rather than face rpm dependancy hell use the following guides and you can use your cd-rom/ISO image as a yum respoitory.

Redhat 5 instructions are below, redhat 6 users follow the guide at the bottom of the page. Both instructions start out differently depending if you are using CDROM or ISO but then they are the same. Just follow the guide and you will be fine.

Currently I only have instructions for RedHat 6 using cdrom.

Setup RedHat 5

CDROM INSTUCTIONS

mkdir /media/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
cd /media/cdrom/Server
rpm -ihv createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm
mkdir /var/repo
cd /var/repo
createrepo -vpo /var/repo /media/cdrom
ln -s /media/cdrom/Server

ISO INSTUCTIONS

mkdir /mnt/rhel5
mount -o loop /path_to_iso/rhel-server-5.4-x86_64-dvd.iso /mnt/rhel5
cd /mnt/rhel5/Server
rpm -ihv createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm
mkdir /var/repo
cd /var/repo
createrepo -vpo /var/repo /mnt/rhel5
ln -s /mnt/rhel5/Server

Then create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel5.repo with the following content

[rhel5] name=RHEL5 DVD baseurl=file:///var/repo/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0

Then run ""yum update"" to upgrade your RedHat 5 system. From then on you can yum search or yum install any packages you need

Setup RedHat 6

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /mnt
cat media.repo [TAKE NOTE OF THE “mediaid”]
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dvdrhel.repo

Place the following in the dvdrhel.repo file changing the "REPLACE_WITH_ID_FROM_ABOVE" with the ID you received from the above command.

[DVD-RHEL6-Repository] mediaid=REPLACE_WITH_ID_FROM_ABOVE name=DVD-RHEL6 repository baseurl=file:///mnt/Server enabled=1 gpgcheck=0

Then run ""yum update"" to upgrade your RedHat 6 system. From then on you can yum search or yum install any packages you need