Local Yum Repos: The Secret to Faster Linux Builds (2025)
🔐 Set Up a Local YUM Repository on Linux | Install wget from Local Repo | DevOps Tutorial
Local Yum Repos: The Secret to Faster Linux Builds (2025)
In this hands-on DevOps video, we’ll walk you through setting up a local YUM repository on the Nautilus Backup Server using pre-downloaded RPM packages. You’ll also learn how to install the wget package from this newly created local repo.
This method is perfect for air-gapped environments, restricted internet servers, or secure production setups where using external repos isn’t ideal.
📌 What You’ll Learn:
Why local YUM repositories are useful
How to create a local repo file (epel_local)
Pointing your repo to a local RPM directory
Installing packages (like wget) using only the local repo
Commands Used:
sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel_local.repo
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum makecache
sudo yum install wget --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel_local" -y
🧠 Ideal For:
DevOps Engineers
Linux System Admins
RHEL/CentOS users
Secure infrastructure teams
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