How to make up2date work?

your_shadow03 · 01-12-2009, 10:07 PM

I have a RHEL AS 4 Update 6 Machine in which I need to install new packages linked to redhat repositories for getting rid of dependency problem.
How Can i make it happen?

billymayday · 01-12-2009, 10:30 PM

Do you have an RH subscription?

your_shadow03 · 01-12-2009, 10:33 PM

No..I dont have that...
is it compulsory?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 01-13-2009, 12:13 AM

Yeah you will need a subscription if you want to use rh repos. Otherwise change your yum configuration to use livna or centos repos.

your_shadow03 · 01-13-2009, 12:38 AM

Any example how to go for that?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 01-13-2009, 12:49 AM

you should have yum configuration in /etc. There should be yum configuration file and yum.repos.d directory where you can save the repositories that you want to add.
This is my rpmforge repository enabled in my rhel4 system.

Code:

# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 4 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

Create a file rpmforge.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and add the contents in the file.