How to Confiure YUM server in Linux

What is yum?

The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for Linux operating systems using the RPM Package Manager. Yum allows automatic updates, package and dependency management, on RPM-based distributions. yum works with software repositories (collections of packages), which can be accessed locally or over a network connection.

Step1: Prerequisites: Below are the rpm based packages need to be installed to continue.

vsftpd*, deltarpm*, python-deltarpm*, createrepo*

Install below packages using rpm command from /misc/cd/Server/Packages

Command: rpm -ivh vsftpd

Command: rpm -ivh deltarpm*

Command: rpm -ivh python-deltarpm*




Command: rpm -ivh createrepo*

Step2: Create directory Server under /var/ftp/pub/

Command: mkdir -p /var/ftp/pub/Server

Step3: Now move to /misc/cd/ and copy all the content to /var/ftp/pub/Server/

Command: cp -avr * /var/ftp/pub/Server

Step4: Now run createrepo command to compile all packaged together.

Command: createrepo /var/ftp/pub/Server

Step5: Restart the vsftpd service and make the service persistence post reboot.

Command: service vsftpd restart

Command: chkconfig --level 35 vsftpd on

Step6: Now create a yum repository configuration file called /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo with the following contents:

Command: vi /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo

[local]
name=my local repo
baseurl=ftp://192.168.0.200/pub/Server/Packages
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Step7: Test the configurations using below commands or try installing any package you wish to install:

Command: yum repolist