Showing posts with label YUM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YUM. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2009

Add repository for YUM

While using yum in RHEL, it used to say :

Loading "security" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package sendmail-cf available.
Nothing to do

I then thought, why not just change the repository for my YUM.. it's as easy as 123..

step 1. Go to /etc/yum.repos.d directory
step2. Create a file e.g myrepos
step3. Add the section header e.g [myrepos]
step4. Add the URL for the rpm repos; your final repos might look like this
#vi /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepos
[myrepos]
baseurl=http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel5/i386/
gpgcheck=0
step5. If you've done that, the rest is simple. Upgrade your system by doing:
yum update
You can add new software by typing:
yum install
Or update installed software:
yum update
Or search for software in the local repository meta-data:
yum search
Or simply list all available software:
yum list available
From time to time you may want to save some diskspace:
yum clean

for more: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B