Set up YUM Repo on RHEL8

Yum is used to Install & Configure software packages in RHEL server.

To configure yum will look for software location. Without configuration the yum/dnf command will not work. There are different location/path we can configure as explained below.

yum when no configuration is available.

We can setup yum Repo :-

• Use locally-mounted DVD with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Network or internet location.

SETUP LOCAL REPO:

• Mount the RHEL installation ISO to a directory like /mnt/disc

Create Repo: Go to path /etc/yum.repos.d. you can give any name but should be extension with .repo.

create Repo

Sample yum repo that uses localpath:

sample Repo

Now try installing httpd server. It started the installation as there are repo located located path. The required software are available and installation started.

$ yum install httpd

To check how many repo lists configured in current system:

Create EPEL Repo:

After installation of EPEL, below repos will be automatically created.