[CentOS] Problems installing packages from the CD

[Johnny Hughes]

On 02/23/2017 05:24 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> So I did a minimal install of centos 7 vm guest just to find out it did not
> install perl. Since as of right now I have no properly functioning network
> on that machine (different issue; we can talk about that in another post),
> I went for the next best thing: install CD.
> 
> I grabbed the CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1611.iso CD (around 8GB), attached
> it to the guest, and mounted it on /mnt. Then I edited the
> 
> cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
> # CentOS-Media.repo
> #
> #  This repo can be used with mounted DVD media, verify the mount point for
> #  CentOS-7.  You can use this repo and yum to install items directly off
> the
> #  DVD ISO that we release.
> #
> # To use this repo, put in your DVD and use it with the other repos too:
> #  yum --enablerepo=c7-media [command]
> #
> # or for ONLY the media repo, do this:
> #
> #  yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media [command]
> 
> [c7-media]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
> baseurl=file:///mnt/
> gpgcheck=1
> enabled=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7
> 
> I then run
> 
> yum clean all
> 
> and then decided to look for perl only on the cd repo, i.e.
> 
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media search perl
> 
> It gave me back the pcre package, which is already installed. I did check
> the /mnt.Packages dir and there are plenty of perl-related packages
> including itself.
> 
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media list all
> 
> shows only installed packages, some of which are shown (?) to have been
> installed from c7-media.

what does :

ls /mnt/

show .. do you see the tree (directories, trees) listed here:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/

try yum list <disable and enable stuff> perl





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