YUM

LINUX + VISHAL

TO Install Yum Server With Vsftpd

1. install Rhel5 DVD in dvd drive,

2. install vaftpd and createrepos RPM find in DVD,

3. Run this command # service vsftpd restart,

4. copy all data packages in dvd are copy on /var/ftp/pub directory,

#mount /dev/dvd /mnt

#cp -r /mnt/* /var/ftp/pub

5. run createrepo command for create repository on /var/ftp/pub directory

#createrepo -v /var/ftp/pub (3min time)

6. now configure and edit yum.conf file

#vim /etc/yum.conf

[gpg]

name=your server name

baseurl=ftp://your ftp ip/pub

gpgcheck=0

enabled=1

:wq (save the file)

7. #service vsftpd restart

#chkconfig vsftpd on

8. chack the yum repo service

#yum list all

#yum clean all

#yum update all

#yum -y install vnc*

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux Enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) Repository

Simply type the following command as root user:

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

List new repo:

# yum repolist

Sample output:

Loading “skip-broken” plugin

Loading “fastestmirror” plugin

repo id              repo name                                                          status

addons             CentOS-5 – Addons                                          enabled

base                  CentOS-5 – Base                                                  enabled

epel                  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 -   enabled

extras             CentOS-5 – Extras                                                enabled

updates          CentOS-5 – Updates                                           enabled

Once installed use yum command to list, view and install the packages:
# yum search package-name
# yum install package-name