Install Red Hat Packages from Local Repository

Red Hat Enterprise Linux server will need to have subscription in order to get the installation or updating the latest packages or support from Red Hat (over the internet). However there are also the attached packages available in Red Hat DVD ISO image that we can use to install packages (offline) without internet connection or subscription. To do this we need to create the local repository as the following:

I. Create local repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, 7.x

• Remote (SSH) or directly login to your RHEL6.x, 7.x via the console
  
• Create local repository file named “/etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo” (you can have your own name) as the following:
  cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo <<‘EOF’
  [Local_Repo]
  name=Local RHEL7.x Repository
  baseurl=file:///media
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=0

  EOF

  

  • [xxxx] – refer to your repo name
  • name – refer to your repo discription
  • baseurl=file:///<packages> – refer to your local mount point for package’s path
  • enabled – refer to enable or disable this repository, thus 1=enable, 0=disable
  • gpgcheck – refer to if we need to verify GPG keys or not, in case we do not need to enable it, so just set it to “0”
• Connect your RHEL 6.x, 7.x DVD ISO image to your VM or insert RHEL 6.x, 7.x DVD to DVD ROM if you have physical machine
  
• Mount your RHEL 6.x, 7.x disk to the mount point “/media” same as your local repository configuration
  mount /dev/cdrom /media
  ls -l /media/
  
• Finally, let test install some packages
  

II. Create local repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x

• Remote (SSH) or directly login to your RHEL 8.x via the console
  
• Create local repository file named “/etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo” (you can have your own name) as the following:
  cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo <<‘EOF’
  [Local_BaseOS]
  name=Local RHEL8.x BaseOS Repository
  baseurl=file:///media/BaseOS
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=0

  [Local_AppStream]
  name=Local RHEL8.x AppStream Repository
  baseurl=file:///media/AppStream
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=0

  EOF

  

  • [xxxx] – refer to your repo name
  • name – refer to your repo discription
  • baseurl=file:///<packages> – refer to your local mount point for package’s path. Note: for RHEL8.x there are 2 local repos package – BaseOS and AppStream
  • enabled – refer to enable or disable this repository, thus 1=enable, 0=disable
  • gpgcheck – refer to if we need to verify GPG keys or not, in case we do not need to enable it, so just set it to “0”
• Connect your RHEL 8.x DVD ISO image to your VM or insert RHEL 8.x DVD to DVD ROM if you have physical machine.
  
• Mount your RHEL 8.x disk to the mount point “/media” same as your local repository configuration
  mount /dev/cdrom /media
  ls -l /media/
  
• Finally, let test install some packages
  
  Thanks!