About mono program with FC6

[Jim Cornette]

edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:

> Hello Jim,
> 
> Due to the Server machine without Internet connection, so how to remove 
> anything of mono by using rpm / yum command ?
> 
> Edward,
> 

I ran yum erase "mono*" to get rid of mono packages. There are sites 
where explanation is given as to how to set up local repos using the iso 
images loop mounted. Yum does not work without Internet connection by 
default.

If you wanted to put all the rpms from the install media on the hard 
disk and setup a local repo, you would also have to install a program 
called createrepo which makes information that yum recognizes to 
retrieve packages.

Basically, insert the install disc(s) and change to the directory where 
the rpms are located. Pick a location to install the rpms such as 
/srv/rpm-repo which you would create. Disable your fedora-extras.repo 
and  fedora-updates.repo files (change enabled to 0 instead of 1)
Next edit your fedora-core.repo file and comment out the mirrorlist= 
line. Add a new line below with
baseurl=file\\\srv\rpm-repo
as the information in the file for your local repo. Copy all of the rpms 
from the RPMS directories from all install media to the /srv/rpm-repo 
directory. Next, change to the /srv/rpm-repo directory and run rpm -Uvh 
createrepo*.rpm to install the createrepo file. Afterwards, run 
createrepo /srv/rpm-repo and wait for it to finish. Next, you should 
have yum setup so you can add or remove rpms from the install disk 
repository. You only need the repo to install rpms but yum needs it to 
run. Afterward run yum erase "mono*" and answer y if the packages that 
will be erased are what packages you want to remove.

I wish tyhere was a simpler way for those without Internet connection to 
do this by just inserting the installation media but there is none right 
now. You might search for information on setting up local repos if you 
want to try the loop mounting the install media isos and setting up 
repos based on that.

Jim

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