How to setup a Local YUM Server in RHEL 6.X/Centos 6.X

YUM stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified. It is a software package manager that installs, removes, and modifies packages on RPM based Linux distributions

Features of YUM

• Fast operation
• Simple interface and easy to configure
• Multiple repositories supportable

In this tutorial I am going to install YUM server in Redhat 6, similar steps to be followed for CENTOS, SCIENTIFIC LINUX

Host Name: server.dcageek.com and my system IP Address: 192.168.152.131

Login to your server and mount the OS DVD in to your media or mnt folder

Step 1: Install the vsftpd Package to share the Repository in our client systems

         #rpm –ivh vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6.i686.rpm

Start the service vsftpd

                #service vsftpd start

Step 2: Install the deltarpm package

                #rpm –ivh deltarpm-3.5-0.5.20090913git.el6.i686.rpm

Step 3: install the Python-deltarpm package

                #rpm –ivh python-deltarpm-3.5-0.5.20090913git.el6.i686.rpm

Step 4: Install the Createrepo package, it is used to create our local repository

                #rpm –ivh createrepo-0.9.8-4.el6.noarch.rpm

Step 5: Create a new folder called yumPackages under /var/ftp/pub/ to save all the rpm files from rhel dvd

                #mkdir /var/ftp/pub/packages

                # cp -ar *.* /var/ftp/pub/packages

 

Step 6: After copying all the rpm files to our specified location create a repo file yumserver.repo in the location /etc/yum.repos.d/

                #vi /etc/yum.repos.d/yumserver.repo

Type the following in the repo file

[yumserver]

name=dcageekyumserver

baseurl =file:///var/ftp/pub/packages/

gpgcheck=0

enabled=1

Step 7: Create the repo file for our local yum server

            
                #createrepo –v /var/ftp/pub/packages

 

Step 8: That’s it yum server is configured in server. Now do the cleaning and update process

            
                #yum clean all

                #yum update all

Step 9: Check Yum Server is working or not by updating, removing or installing a package

Thas it Yum server is configured


Client side Configuration

Create a repo file in yum.repos.d directory

Type the following in the repo file

[yumserver]

name=dcageekyumserver

baseurl =ftp://192.168.152.131/pub/packages

gpgcheck=0

enabled=1

Save it, clean it  and update it.