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Setup Local YUM Server in CentOS 6

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Yellowdog updater, Modified (Yum) is a software package manager that installs, updates and removes packages on RPM-based Linux distributions. Yum makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

Features

  • Support for multiple repositories.
  • Simple configuration.
  • Automatic dependency calculation.
  • Fast operation.
  • RPM-consistent behavior.
  • Package group support, including multiple-repository groups.
  • Simple interface.

Let us install a local yum server using CentOS 6.3. The steps provided here are tested in CentOS 6.3. But it will work fine in RHEL 6.x and Scientific Linux 6.x too.

Setup Local YUM Server in CentOS

In this example the hostname of the server is myserver.ostechnix.com and IP Address is 192.168.56.101.

Login to your system and Mount the contents of your CentOS 6.3 DVD in the /mnt directory or wherever you want. In the Terminal window, type the following command:

# mount /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/
(Here cdrom1 is my local cdrom device)
Install vsftpd package, so that we can use this as a FTP server to share our repository in the client systems.
Change to the directory where you mounted CentOS DVD. In our example we have mounted the CentOS DVD in /mnt directory.
# cd /mnt/Packages
# rpm -ivh vsftpd-2.2.2-11.el6.i686.rpm

Start the FTP Service:

# service vsftpd start
Install createrepo package if it is not installed. This is package is used to create our local repository.
# rpm -ivh createrepo-0.9.8-5.el6.noarch.rpm
Oops!! It shows us the dependency problem. Let us the install missing dependencies first:
# rpm -ivh deltarpm-3.5-0.5.20090913git.el6.i686.rpm
Then install the another one:
# rpm -ivh python-deltarpm-3.5-0.5.20090913git.el6.i686.rpm

Now install the createrepo package:

Create a folder called localyumserver (You can use your own) in /var/ftp/pub directory to save all the packages from the CentOS DVD. Copy all the files in the Packages folder from the DVD to /var/ftp/pub/localyumserver folder:

# mkdir /var/ftp/pub/localyumserver
# cp -ar *.* /var/ftp/pub/localyumserver
It will take a while to copy all the packages in the DVD. Please be patient. After all packages are copied, create a repo file called localyumserver.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.
# nano /etc/yum.repos.d/localyumserver.repo

Type the following entries and save the file (CTRL+O to save and CTRL+X to exit):

Where,
[localyumserver] ==> Name of the Local Repository.
comment ==> Information about the Repository.
baseurl ==> Path of the Repository (i.e where we had copied the contents from CentOS DVD)
gpgcheck ==> Authentication of the Repository, which is disabled in our case.

Now it is time to create our repository. Enter the following command in the Terminal:

# createrepo -v /var/ftp/pub/localyumserver

Now the local YUM repository creation process will begin.

Note: Delete or rename all the other repo files except the newly created repo file i.e in our example it is localyumserver.repo

Next update the repository:
yum clean all
yum update

You're done now.

Client side configuration

Create a repo file in your client system as mentioned above in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and remove or rename the existing repositories. Then modify the baseurl as mentioned below:

[localyumserver]
comment ="My Local Repository"
baseurl=ftp://myserver.ostechnix.com/pub/localyumserver
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Or,

[localyumserver]
comment ="My Local Repository"
baseurl=ftp://192.168.56.101/pub/localyumserver
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

That's it. Start using installing packages from local Yum repository.

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sivam April 15, 2013 - 2:18 pm

wow Thank you man I have configured Yum from your guide .Thanks

Thanks alot

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vinod June 11, 2013 - 12:29 pm

not working please help me.where to type ‘yum clean all’ and ‘yum update’ in server or client

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Try these commands on both systems. It should work.

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Hi

Refer the following link about group install.

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