In this article, I will share about how to update and install RPM packages from the image CD-ROM\/DVD-ROM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). This step can also be used on CentOS 6 or older versions such as CentOS 5. It would be very useful if the server you have a slow internet connection, or no internet connection. Instead of using internet connection directly to RHEL repositories registered, it is possible to use the Local CD\/DVD- ROM as your yum repository. There are two methods to install and configure local yum repository RHEL 6. Both methods have been tested and works well on Linux RHEL 6 server. You can choose whichever method you choose :<\/p>\n
Method 1:<\/strong> 3. Check the existing partition on your RHEL 6 server :<\/p>\n 4. Go to \/mnt and check current directory :<\/p>\n 5. List out what is in DVD.<\/p>\n 6. Read what is in media.repo. Take note on the mediaid :<\/p>\n 7. Create dvdrhel.repo text file in \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/ with the following content. Please create something as follow:<\/p>\n 8. Finish. You can start install, remove and update using yum command :<\/p>\n Method 2 :<\/strong> 2. Create repo directory in \/media :<\/p>\n 3. Create 1 2 3 directory in \/media\/repo :<\/p>\n 4. Mount the ISO from the DVDROM into \/media\/repo\/1 directory :<\/p>\n 5. Create temporary repo folder under \/tmp to put required rpm\u2019s packages for createrepo installation :<\/p>\n 6. Copy the require packages to install create repo :<\/p>\n 7. Install the rpm packages using below command :<\/p>\n 8. Go to \/media\/repo directory :<\/p>\n 9. Run createrepo command :<\/p>\n 10. Clean up the repo :<\/p>\n 11. Create a repo config file in \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/ directory :<\/p>\n 12. Start install using yum command as below :<\/p>\n In this article, I will share about how to update and install RPM packages from the image CD-ROM\/DVD-ROM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). This step can also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2058,2062],"tags":[1251,1536,1713,1715,1944],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhel","category-yum","tag-centos-6","tag-linux","tag-rhel","tag-rhel-6","tag-yum-repositories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. Insert DVD\/ISO into DVD-Drive.
\n2. Mount the ISO from the DVD-ROM into \/mnt directory :<\/p>\n\n
\n[root@rhel6 ~]# mount \/dev\/cdrom \/mnt\nmount: block device \/dev\/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# df\nFilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on\n\/dev\/mapper\/VolGroup-lv_root\n 9845280 1328824 8016336 15% \/\ntmpfs 515660 0 515660 0% \/dev\/shm\n\/dev\/sda1 495844 28689 441555 7% \/boot\n\/dev\/sr0 2862360 2862360 0 100% \/mnt\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# cd \/mnt\n[root@rhel6 mnt]# pwd\n\/mnt\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 mnt]# ls\nEULA RELEASE-NOTES-es-ES.html RELEASE-NOTES-ru-RU.html\nGPL RELEASE-NOTES-fr-FR.html RELEASE-NOTES-si-LK.html\nHighAvailability RELEASE-NOTES-gu-IN.html RELEASE-NOTES-ta-IN.html\nimages RELEASE-NOTES-hi-IN.html RELEASE-NOTES-te-IN.html\nisolinux RELEASE-NOTES-it-IT.html RELEASE-NOTES-zh-CN.html\nLoadBalancer RELEASE-NOTES-ja-JP.html RELEASE-NOTES-zh-TW.html\nmedia.repo RELEASE-NOTES-kn-IN.html repodata\nPackages RELEASE-NOTES-ko-KR.html ResilientStorage\nREADME RELEASE-NOTES-ml-IN.html RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-beta\nRELEASE-NOTES-as-IN.html RELEASE-NOTES-mr-IN.html RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release\nRELEASE-NOTES-bn-IN.html RELEASE-NOTES-or-IN.html Server\nRELEASE-NOTES-de-DE.html RELEASE-NOTES-pa-IN.html TRANS.TBL\nRELEASE-NOTES-en-US.html RELEASE-NOTES-pt-BR.html\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 mnt]# cat media.repo\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[InstallMedia]\nname=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0\nmediaid=1235481171.125642\nmetadata_expire=-1\ngpgcheck=0\ncost=500\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# vi \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/dvdrhel.repo\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[DVD-RHEL6-Repository]\nmediaid=1235481171.125642\nname=DVD-RHEL6 repository\nbaseurl=file:\/\/\/mnt\/Server\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=0\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
\n1. Check the existing partition on your RHEL 6 server :<\/p>\n\n
\n[root@rhel6 ~]# df\nFilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on\n\/dev\/mapper\/VolGroup-lv_root\n 9845280 1221632 8123528 14% \/\ntmpfs 515660 0 515660 0% \/dev\/shm\n\/dev\/sda1 495844 28689 441555 7% \/boot\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# mkdir \/media\/repo\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# mkdir -p \/media\/repo\/{1,2,3}\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n\n
\n[root@rhel6 ~]# mount -o loop \/dev\/cdrom \/media\/repo\/1\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# df\nFilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on\n\/dev\/mapper\/VolGroup-lv_root\n 9845280 1221644 8123516 14% \/\ntmpfs 515660 0 515660 0% \/dev\/shm\n\/dev\/sda1 495844 28689 441555 7% \/boot\n\/dev\/loop0 2862360 2862360 0 100% \/media\/repo\/1\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# mkdir \/tmp\/repo \n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# cp \/media\/repo\/1\/Packages\/createrepo* \/tmp\/repo\n[root@rhel6 ~]# cp \/media\/repo\/1\/Packages\/deltarpm* \/tmp\/repo\n[root@rhel6 ~]# cp \/media\/repo\/1\/Packages\/python-deltarpm* \/tmp\/repo\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# rpm -ivh \/tmp\/repo\/*\nwarning: \/tmp\/repo\/createrepo-0.9.8-4.el6.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA\/SHA256 Signature, key ID fd431d51: NOKEY\nPreparing... ########################################### [100%]\n 1:deltarpm ########################################### [ 33%]\n 2:python-deltarpm ########################################### [ 67%]\n 3:createrepo ########################################### [100%]\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# cd \/media\/repo\/\n[root@rhel6 repo]# pwd\n\/media\/repo\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 repo]# createrepo .\n 2358\/13395 - 1\/HighAvailability\/Packages\/system-config-keyboard-1.3.1-3.el6.i68\niso-8859-1 encoding on Ville Skytt\u00e4
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# yum clean all\nLoaded plugins: rhnplugin\nCleaning up Everything\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# vi \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/rhel.repo\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[RHEL6-Repository]\nname=RHEL6 repository\nbaseurl=file:\/\/\/media\/repo\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=0\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n[root@rhel6 ~]# yum install httpd\nLoaded plugins: rhnplugin\nThis system is not registered with RHN.\nRHN support will be disabled.\nRHEL6-Repository | 1.3 kB 00:00 ...\nRHEL6-Repository\/primary | 5.4 MB 00:00 ...\nRHEL6-Repository 13395\/13395\nSetting up Install Process\nResolving Dependencies\n--> Running transaction check\n---> Package httpd.i686 0:2.2.15-5.el6 set to be updated\n--> Finished Dependency Resolution\n\nDependencies Resolved\n\n====================================================================================================\n Package Arch Version Repository Size\n====================================================================================================\nInstalling:\n httpd i686 2.2.15-5.el6 RHEL6-Repository 813 k\n\nTransaction Summary\n====================================================================================================\nInstall 1 Package(s)\nUpgrade 0 Package(s)\n\nTotal download size: 813 k\nInstalled size: 2.8 M\nIs this ok [y\/N]: y\nDownloading Packages:\nRunning rpm_check_debug\nRunning Transaction Test\nTransaction Test Succeeded\nRunning Transaction\n Installing : httpd-2.2.15-5.el6.i686 1\/1\n\nInstalled:\n httpd.i686 0:2.2.15-5.el6\n\nComplete!\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"