yum localinstall without internet connection

[aifol]

Hi,

I am installing FC4 on Dell Gen5 box at home. I had a problem with xorg that incorrectly recognized my FP monitor. Through forums I found this bug has been fixed that newer version of xorg. I am trying to update xorg (and the rest of the packages) with yum. The problem is that I have no access to internet at home yet.

I have downloaded FC4 updates and copied them to my local HDD. When I run

yum localinstall *

I am getting "cannot find repodata/repomd.xml" error. What should be in this file? Can I create it without internet connection?

I've read a lot of posts on different forums and found nothing 100% relevant. should this be a "common" problem?
thanks.
aifol

[HowardRoark]

I have searched and searched but have yet to find a way to do a TRULY local install. This would be EXTREMELY VALUABLE.

Even doing "yum localinstall" goes online to get dependencies. If I'm trying to install some programs from a F8 DVD that I KNOW are completely contained with all the dependencies on the disk (because they can be successfully installed from there while doing a fresh install), yum insists on going online for its dependencies. This wouldn't be a problem except that it takes a LONG time, and I'm trying to do this on 57 machines.

Does anyone know how to do a TRULY local install?

[PabloTwo]

Use the --disablerepo=* switch to prevent yum from trying to go online and check with the repos.

yum localinstall --disablerepo=* somepackage

[Janl]

The other option would be to simply use the "rpm" command to install the package. Short of this, then as PabloTwo stated you could simply disable each of your repos and use yum localinstall.

[HowardRoark]

OK, so this means that yum is smart enough to go back to the DVD for the files if the repos aren't available. I'll try that.

Janl, my understanding of the "rpm" is that if there are any dependencies at all, then the command will fail. And the packages that I'm trying to install to have dependencies (on the same DVD). So yum would be necessary to pick these up, no?

Thanks for the suggestions!

[Hlingler]

Last time I tried to run YUM with all repos disabled ('--disablerepo=*'), it choked violently and died with copious error output. AFAIK, there must be at least one repo enabled - but it can be a local repo, say InstallMedia, which would be the install DVD. YUM will not look on-line if no remote repos are enabled.

rpm will not fetch needed dependencies, but you can be prepared with them ahead of time, and install all the necessary packages at one time: just list them all for eaxmple:
rpm -ivh <packagename> <dependency1> <dependency2> ...

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[PabloTwo]

--disablerepo=* will disable all the repos defined, including the local DVD repo. In order to keep the DVD repo active, you'd need to use multiple instances of the --disaablerepo- option to target all the online active online repos (I think you are allowed multiple instances of that option). So if any deps aren't found on the local DVD, you're still going to get an install failure.

[Janl]

If you know the dependencies, then you can still use RPM to install the packages. You just have to include all of the packages in the command. Another option is if you have all of the packages together in a single directory alone you could use

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

which would install all .rpm files in that directory.

The other option as mentioned above would be to disable every repo except the "local" repo and use YUM.

***EDIT***
Another option I just thought of would be to use Opyum. It was designed to create update package sets for use in an offline environment. I haven't used it, but it sounds like it was built for your type of situation.

You can find some information about it here if interested.

It should also be installable from the repositories or from Koji directly.