Monthly Archives: October 2014

Sometime, It’s hard to discover that someone failed to install properly a server with the right tools. Today, it was a Redhat Enterprise Server 5.4 “BareMetal” not updated since a while … So first, I uploaded the ISO from 5.11 on the server, Second, created a local directory Third, mounted the ISO on it At the end, I finished by creating the local.repo file to allow yum to find what it needs.   But, “YUM” was not installed on the server ! Right, it’s time to install it with RPM. First, go to the local repository directory and then in the directory “Server”, and copy paste this line:

You should have something similar:

And now, you can update the server via a simple yum update -y.

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