Thursday, July 2, 2015

Yum to Install Packages to RHEL

If you are not registered or subscribed to RHN, you can easily install packages using yum with the help of CentOS 5/6 repo. All you need to do is follow this procedure:

with super user open a new file
   # vim /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo
   Paste the below text and hardcode either 5 or 6 based on your redhat version

      [centos]
      name=CentOS $releasever - $basearch
      baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/6/os/$basearch/
      enabled=1
      gpgcheck=0


Now execute the yum command to install any packages that you need like gcc
# yum install gcc 


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