Installation of Packages through RPM or YUM .

Installation of Packages through RPM or YUM 

If you want to install from CD or DVD go to packages location generally 
in /media/CDROM/Server
To install from NFS server where NFS server's IP is 192.168.0.250 and
share folder is /var/ftp/pub/Server mount the share at client side .
[root@client mnt]# mount 192.168.0.250:/var/ftp/pub/Server /mnt
[root@client mnt]# mount
[root@client mnt]# cd /mnt
[root@client mnt]# ls
To install packages
[root@client mnt]# rpm -i samba*  vsftpd*
[root@client mnt]# rpm -iv   samba*  vsftpd*
[root@client mnt]# rpm -iv   samba*  vsftpd* --force
[root@client mnt]# rpm -ivh  samba*  vsftpd* --force
To remove the packages 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -e vsftpd 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -e vsftpd 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -e samba --nodeps 
To query the packages 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -qa 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -qa | sort | less [root@client mnt]# rpm -q samba 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -qa samba* 
[root@client mnt]# 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -qi samba 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -ql samba 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -qd samba 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -qc samba 
[root@client mnt]# rpm -qs samba 

Installing through yum 
Creating a repository at server side where all rpms are copied 
[root@client ~]# cd /var/ftp/pub/Server 

[root@client Server]# rpm -ivh createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6.noarch.rpm --
force
Remove the old repodata 
[root@client Server]# rm -rf repodata/ 
Create a new repodata 

[root@client Server]# createrepo -g /media/cdrom/Server/repodata/comps-
rhel5-server-core.xml 
[root@client Server]# cd
 [root@client ~]# 
At client side edit the yum configuration file, provide the path of repository 
[root@client ~]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-debuginfo.repo 
[core] 
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug baseurl=ftp://192.168.0.250/pub/Server 
enabled=1 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rp 
:wq! 
Installing through yum 
[root@client ~]# yum list 
[root@client ~]# yum list installed 
[root@client ~]# yum list installed samba* [root@client ~]# yum install vsftpd* samba* [root@client ~]# yum remove vsftpd* samba* [root@client ~]# yum grouplist 
[root@client ~]# yum groupinstall "Mail Server" 
[root@client ~]# yum groupremove  "Mail Server" 
[root@client ~]# cd /media/cdrom/Server