Articles/How To Install Fedora 8 Local Repo Files

From LUG@IITD

Currently we are providing local repos for Fedora 8. To add local repo configuration files, follow following procedure

• su

enter password

• cd /etc/yum.repo.d/
• gedit local-base.repo

Add these lines to this file and save

[local-base]
name=Eklavya Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://10.10.4.1/pub/Linux/Fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/Packages/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

• cd /etc/yum.repo.d/
• gedit local-updates.repo

[local-updates]
name=Eklavya - Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://10.10.4.1/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

• What is this
• Well for installing software in Linux system, you need to have a Internet connection and package manager will download packages from mirrors which are located on Internet. This is a slow process. generally every Universities has Local Repo of Linux Disto. We have made a Local repo for Fedora 8, so that that process of updates and installation of softwares will be very fast.

Plz free to contact : Narendra Sisodiya for any BUG regarding this task.