Public Yum with Oracle
By ckim
Configure your server for Yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified): There’s no more need to look for CDs from your pile of CDs or from the clutter of your desk. Earlier in 2009, Oracle launched their public yum server which offers a free and convenient way to install packages from the Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM. Obviously, the Yum server if offered without support. We will show you how to setup your Red Hat or Oracle Enterprise Linux to use Oracle’s public Yum repository. In this example, we only focus on 64-bit Red Hat 5 Update 3. view sourceprint?
01 [root@rac01 ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ 02 [root@rac01 yum.repos.d]# ls -ltr 03 total 0 04 [root@rac01 yum.repos.d]# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo 05 --11:27:04-- http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo 06 Resolving public-yum.oracle.com... 141.146.44.34 07 Connecting to public-yum.oracle.com|141.146.44.34|:80... connected. 08 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK 09 Length: 1402 (1.4K) [text/plain] 10 Saving to: `public-yum-el5.repo' 11 12 100%[=========================================================>] 1,402 --.-K/s in 0s 13 14 11:27:04 (83.6 MB/s) - `public-yum-el5.repo' saved [1402/1402]
Edit the file public-yum-el5.repo with your choice of editor such as vi. Change enabled=0 to enabled=1 for the following sections since we are on RH5 U3 Portions of your yum.repos.d file should look something like this: view sourceprint?
01 [el5_u3_base] 02 name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U3 - $basearch - base 03 baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/3/base/$basearch/ 04 gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5 05 gpgcheck=1 06 enabled=1 07 08 [el5_addons] 09 name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - addons 10 baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/addons/$basearch/ 11 gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5 12 gpgcheck=1 13 enabled=1 14 15 [el5_oracle_addons] 16 name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - oracle_addons 17 baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/oracle_addons/$basearch/ 18 gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5 19 gpgcheck=1 20 enabled=1
Install missing RPM needed to install Oracle
Here’s an example of downloading the compat-db RPM and installing the package view sourceprint?
01 [root@rac01 yum.repos.d]# yum install compat-db 02 Loaded plugins: security 03 Setting up Install Process 04 Parsing package install arguments 05 Package compat-db-4.2.52-5.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version 06 Resolving Dependencies 07 --> Running transaction check 08 ---> Package compat-db.i386 0:4.2.52-5.1 set to be updated 09 --> Finished Dependency Resolution 10 11 Dependencies Resolved 12 13 ================================================================================================== 14 Package Arch Version Repository >15 ================================================================================================== 16 Installing: 17 compat-db i386 4.2.52-5.1 el5_u3_base 1.7 M 18 19 Transaction Summary 20 ================================================================================================== 21 Install 1 Package(s) 22 Update 0 Package(s) 23 Remove 0 Package(s) 24 25 Total download>26 Is this ok [y/N]: y 27 Downloading Packages: 28 compat-db-4.2.52-5.1.i386.rpm | 1.7 MB 00:01 29 Running rpm_check_debug 30 Running Transaction Test 31 Finished Transaction Test 32 Transaction Test Succeeded 33 Running Transaction 34 Installing : compat-db [1/1] 35 36 Installed: compat-db.i386 0:4.2.52-5.1 37 Complete!
Posted by Charles Kim, Oracle ACE