Can I install “development-tools” offline? Or, how to make my CD the yum repository?

Question

I'm looking for the "development-tools" for Fedora, but I can't find information about how/where to download it to install offline (I have no internet connection in my Fedora).

Attempt 1: There's a hint here about how to use the DVD as repository, but I don't have the media.repo in the root of my Fedora 15 DVD.. any idea where's it?

Attempt 2: I also found this image, in a page saying that I can choose during the installation to install the development-tools. But I just re-installed Fedora paying attention, and didn't saw that screen or that option..

Attempt 3: I found this approach, but it requires to install the createrepo, and I can't install a thing here..

Using Bakha Nurzhanov's approach:

Mount your DVD media: mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/CentOS Create file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo with the following content:

[c5-media]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0

Use your DVD to install "Development Tools"

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media groupinstall "Development Tools"

On this last step I got:

$ yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml
Trying other mirror.
You need to give some command
Usage: yum [options] COMMAND

I checked, really there's no repodata folder or repomd.xml file.. Here's the DVD tree:

$ tree
.
├── EFI
│   └── boot
│       ├── bootx64.conf
│       ├── bootx64.efi
│       ├── grub.conf
│       ├── initrd0.img
│       ├── isolinux.bin
│       ├── isolinux.cfg
│       ├── memtest
│       ├── splash.jpg
│       ├── splash.xpm.gz
│       ├── vesamenu.c32
│       └── vmlinuz0
├── GPL
├── isolinux
│   ├── boot.cat
│   ├── initrd0.img
│   ├── isolinux.bin
│   ├── isolinux.cfg
│   ├── memtest
│   ├── splash.jpg
│   ├── vesamenu.c32
│   └── vmlinuz0
└── LiveOS
    ├── livecd-iso-to-disk
    ├── osmin.img
    └── squashfs.img

4 directories, 23 files

Is my version of the DVD different of your? I downloaded the lastest from the site..

Answer 1

development-tools is a set of packages related development. You should mount your Fedora ISO or CD, run system-config-packages in a terminal, check the packages you wanted to install under development-tools, then apply your change.

Answer 2

• Mount your DVD media:

mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/CentOS

• Create file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo with the following content:

[c5-media]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0

• Use your DVD to install "Development Tools"

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media groupinstall "Development Tools"

Answer 3

You will need to connect to a package repository of some kind. You can set your package manager (in the case of Fedora it should be yum) to use your CD's as the repository. Usually configurations for this are in the default config file but not enabled. Look in /etc/yum/repos.d to see if you can find the name of the repository that is configured for your cd media.

Once your repo is configured as default or you know what yum command to run to have it enabled (yum --enablerepo=cdrom_repo_name or something like that) you should be able to install whatever tools you need. yum install make autoconf gcc [...].

All that being said, the easiest way to do this is get the machine online. Temporarily add a network card if you have to, but do something to get it online, updated, and install the packages you need, then go back to fixing your other issue.