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Instruction on setting up a RPM repository on a separate Linux machine and apply RPM's on the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)

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Goal

Use a separate Linux machine as your RPM repository to download and apply RPMs on the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)

Fix

On the designated separate Linux server, execute the following 4 steps to download RPMs.

1.  Create a repository file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and enable the repo.

Download and copy the appropriate yum configuration file in place, by running the following commands as root:

The follow command will create the repository in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

 # cd /etc/yum.repos.d

# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo

--2012-05-07 23:54:26--  http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo

Resolving public-yum.oracle.com... 141.146.44.34

Connecting to public-yum.oracle.com|141.146.44.34|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 3974 (3.9K) [text/plain]

Saving to: `public-yum-el5.repo'

100%[===================================================================================================================>] 3,974       --.-K/s   in 0s

2012-05-07 23:54:26 (9.39 MB/s) - `public-yum-el5.repo' saved [3974/3974]

2.  Download and install the yum-downloadonly RPM option:

# yum install yum-downloadonly 

3.  Ensure Yum-downloadonly plug-in is enabled (i.e. enabled=1)

#cat /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/downloadonly.conf

[main]

enabled=1

If the file is not as follows, modify the file and ensure enable=1

4.  To download a new RPM use the following:

# yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=<directory_Path> <rpm_name>

This command will download only the named RPM (<rpm_name>) to the directory path (<directory_Path>) specified.

 # yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp sendmail-doc -y

Once you have downloaded the RPM copy it to Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) and install.

(i.e.) scp <RPM_NAME> root@<ODA_MACHINE>:/tmp/

 To install a rpm on the Oracle Database Appliance execute

            rpm -ivh [/PATH/RPM_NAME]

        # rpm -ivh /tmp/sendmail-doc-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7.x86_64.rpm

If there is a need to Remove a RPM on the Oracle Database Appliance execute

        # rpm -ev sendmail-doc

To download and review a complete list of RPMs install on the Oracle Database Appliance (oak 2.2.0.0.0) base release click here.

If you want to directly download RPMs on a Oracle Database Appliance follow Note ID 1461798.1 How to download Linux RPMs directly on the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)

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