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How would I use yum to update or install packages from a ISO of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5?

Article ID: 9893 - Created on: Apr 26, 2007 6:00 PM - Last Modified: Apr 26, 2007 6:00 PM

Release found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Resolution:

In order to use yum to install or update packages from an iso file, follow the steps below: -

Create directories to mount the iso file.
```
 #mkdir -p /cdrom/iso
 
```
Mount the iso as loopback device.
```
 #mount -o loop <iso-name> /cdrom/iso
 
```
Replace <iso-name> with the iso file.
Create a repository. The createrepo package needs to be installed on the system in order to run the following commands. createrepo is an optional package and is not installed by default.
```
 #cd /cdrom
 #createrepo .
 #yum clean all
 
```

Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo as follows:


 #cat /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo
 [RHEL 5 Repository]
 baseurl=file:///cdrom
 enabled=1

Running yum should now work with the iso file as the source.

Tags: rhel5

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