Yum error

[harshak_dhl]

Hi,
I installed yum packages and tried to use it like yum install <package>.rpm. I am getting the following errors. how to rectify this.

thanks
harsha

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Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
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Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
file:///rpms/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/rpms/repodata/repomd.xml'
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: rhel-debuginfo


Yum configuration file.
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[rhel-debuginfo]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=file:///rpms
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

[waterhead]

To use a local directory with YUM, you first must create the repo data using createrepo. If createrepo isn't already installed, you should be able to install it using YUM.

yum install creraterepo

You then must use it to create the datafile. if the rpms are in the /rpms folder, use this command. (Run this and all others with root permissions)

createrepo /rpms

This will create a folder named repodata, in the /rpms folder, containing the needed files. You then need to create a config file for your new repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder. It looks like you already did, but you used an existing file and altered it. I would recommend just creating a new one and restore the one you changed to it's original configuration.


Here is a simple file, that you can save as localrpms.repo.

[localrpms]
name=localrpms
baseurl=file:///rpms
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Next update YUM using this ccommand.

 yum makecache

It now should include any rpm files that you have in the /rpms folder. When I added rpms to my folder, I re-ran the createrepo and makecache commands.