How to connect to Oracle Linux Yum Server
Oracle Linux yum server hosts software for Oracle Linux and compatible distributions. These instructions help you get started configuring your Linux system for Oracle Linux yum server and installing software via yum
or dnf
If you are starting from scratch, and don’t have a Linux OS installed, download and install Oracle Linux. Alternatively, use an Oracle Linux Vagrant box to run with Oracle VM VirtualBox or KVM
In most cases, your Oracle Linux system will already be set up to install software from Oracle Linux yum server. See Installing Software from Oracle Linux Yum Server for an overview software available on this yum server.
The yum utility that is provided with Oracle Linux 8 and 9 is based on Dandified Yum (DNF). You can use dnf to install or upgrade RPM packages, while automatically handling package dependencies and requirements. The yum command that is provided with Oracle Linux 8 and 9 is a symbolic link to dnf and you can use the dnf command and all of its options similarly to how you used the yum command on previous releases of Oracle Linux.
DNF introduces the concepts of modules, streams and profiles to allow for the management of different versions of software applications within a single operating system release. To read more about this subject, see the documentation: Oracle® Linux: Managing Software in Oracle Linux
To see a list of available modules in Oracle Linux 8 and 9 Application Stream:
# dnf module list
To switch from CentOS 7 or 8 (excluding Stream) to Oracle Linux, follow these directions on GitHub.
To install software from Oracle Linux yum server on Red Hat Enterpise Linux perform these actions:
Import the Oracle Linux GPG key using these instructions.
Ceate a temporary yum repository configuration file /etc/yum.repos.d/ol7-temp.repo
with the following as the minimum required content:
[ol7_latest]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
oraclelinux-release-el7
:# yum install oraclelinux-release-el7
ol7-temp.repo
and any other remaining repo files that may conflict with Oracle Linux yum server:# mv /etc/yum.repos.d/ol7-temp.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/ol7-temp.repo.disabled
You are now ready to install additional software. See: Installing Software from Oracle Linux Yum Server
If you want to update your system, proceed with the following command:
# yum update -y
Import the Oracle Linux GPG key using these instructions.
Ceate a temporary yum repository configuration file /etc/yum.repos.d/ol8-temp.repo
with the following as the minimum required content:
[ol8_baseos_latest]
name=Oracle Linux 8 BaseOS Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/baseos/latest/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
oraclelinux-release-el8
:# dnf install oraclelinux-release-el8
ol8-temp.repo
and any other remaining repo files that may conflict with Oracle Linux yum server:# mv /etc/yum.repos.d/ol8-temp.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/ol8-temp.repo.disabled
You are now ready to install additional software. See: Installing Software from Oracle Linux Yum Server
[OPTIONAL] To update your system, proceed with the following command:
# dnf update --setopt=ol8_appstream.module_hotfixes=true --allowerasing -y
Import the Oracle Linux GPG key using these instructions.
Ceate a temporary yum repository configuration file /etc/yum.repos.d/ol9-temp.repo
with the following as the minimum required content:
[ol9_baseos_latest]
name=Oracle Linux 9 BaseOS Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/baseos/latest/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
oraclelinux-release-el9
:# dnf install oraclelinux-release-el9
ol9-temp.repo
and any other remaining repo files that may conflict with Oracle Linux yum server:# mv /etc/yum.repos.d/ol9-temp.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/ol9-temp.repo.disabled
You are now ready to install additional software. See: Installing Software from Oracle Linux Yum Server
[OPTIONAL] To update your system, proceed with the following command:
# dnf update --setopt=ol9_appstream.module_hotfixes=true --allowerasing -y
Oracle Linux yum server hosts many different types of software in repositories for which the configuration is installed and updated via release packages. Below is a list of available software and the corresponding release packages to configure yum.
Software | Release RPM |
---|---|
Oracle Linux, UEK & Addons. In addition:
|
oraclelinux-release-el9, oraclelinux-release-el8, oraclelinux-release-el7 |
Software Collection Library for Oracle Linux | oracle-softwarecollection-release-el7 |
Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment | oracle-olcne-release-el8, oracle-olcne-release-el7 |
Oracle Linux Manager Server | oracle-linux-manager-server-release-el7 |
Oracle Linux Manager Client | oracle-linux-manager-client-release-el9, oracle-linux-manager-client-release-el8, oracle-linux-manager-client-release-el7 |
Gluster Storage | oracle-gluster-release-el8, oracle-gluster-release-el7 |
Oracle Instant Client (release 21.x and newer) | oracle-instantclient-release-el8, oracle-instantclient-release-el7 |
Oracle Instant Client (up to release 19.x) | oracle-release-el8, oracle-release-el7 |
EPEL for Oracle Linux | oracle-epel-release-el9, oracle-epel-release-el8, oracle-epel-release-el7 |
Packages for Developers and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | oraclelinux-developer-release-el9, oraclelinux-developer-release-el8, oraclelinux-developer-release-el7 |
GraalVM Community Edition | oracle-graalvm-ce-release-el7 |
MySQL Community releases | mysql-release-el8, mysql-release-el7 |
Stable releases of the Go programming language | oracle-golang-release-el7 |
Stable PHP releases | oracle-php-release-el7 |
Stable Node.js releases | oracle-nodejs-release-el7 |
To see an up to date list of installed and available release packages on Oracle Linux:
# yum list *release-el7
# dnf list *release-el8
# dnf list *release-el9
Each region in Oracle Linux Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has its own Oracle Linux yum server mirror to enable high speed access without incurring extra network charges. When launched, Oracle Linux images have a yum variable set in /etc/yum/vars/ociregion
to ensure they connect to a mirror in the appropriate OCI region.
If /etc/yum/vars/ociregion
is not set, or not set correctly, run the following
# OCIREGION=$(curl -sfm 3 http://169.254.169.254/opc/v1/instance/ | jq -r '.region' | cut -d '-' -f 2)
# echo "-$OCIREGION" > /etc/yum/vars/ociregion
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