redhat-list Digest, Vol 145, Issue 1

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Larry Martell wrote:

> Yes, I read that and it says I need rhel-7-server-optional-rpms and
> rhel-7-server-extras-rpms, but as I posted yesterday I have not been
> able to get these. I googled and I found that I needed to run:
> 
> subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
> 
> and that said:
> 
> This system has no repositories available through subscriptions.
> 
> I did some local research and I found that the update service has
> expired, and they are not sure if they want to pay to renew it or not.

Those binaries are not freely available (either as matter of 
economics, viz., 'free beer', or free from license 
constraint).  That license was assented to by your upstream or 
its agent assented as part of purchasing that subscription

-- Russ herrold