Oracle's Public Yum Setup

After installing Oracle Linux on your VM it is time to connect your machine to Oracle's public Yum. This public yum holds all needed library packages for our PeopleSoft sand box. The setting up as public yum connection is very easy.

Setup a Public Yum Connection On Your Box:

1. Open a browser with your new OS.
2. Navigate to: http://public-yum.oracle.com/
3. If you look at the page we can find the needed commands.
4. Open a new Command prompt and enter the following commands:
• su
• Enter your password for the root user: "oracle"  
• # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
• # wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo
• # yum install oracle-linux

A word to the wise: You can only install new libraries when you are the root user.
To install a new library use the following format:
# yum install <library name>