How to add remote FTP / HTTP repository to RHEL or CentOS 6/7
To do it, first you need to collect below two details; FTP / HTTP YUM server IP i.e. "10.0.0.1" Packages location on remote YUM server i.e. "/rhel6_64repo/Packages/" Then create a repo file " rhel6_ftp_remote " in "/etc/yum.repos.d/" folder with below content; [rhel6_ftp_remote] name=Remote FTP Repository for RHEL6 $releasever – $basearch baseurl= ftp ://10.0.0.1/rhel6_64repo/Packages/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 If you want to add HTTP repo link, then replace "ftp" with "http". [rhel6_http_remote] name=Remote HTTP Repository for RHEL6 $releasever – $basearch baseurl= http ://10.0.0.1/rhel6_64repo/Packages/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 To add Local repo, read this article .