Public Yum Server for Enterprise Linux

Today i was challenged with a package installation on a Enterprise Linux server from which the registered Yum configuration was not valid anymore.
As this is the preferred way of maintaining your system i was searching for a quick way to get Yum working again without allot of impact.

As it seemed oracle recently opened up its doors by publicly share there Package repository !

New Public Yum Server for Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM
This new yum server offers a free and convenient way to install packages from the Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM installation media via a yum client.
posted Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:18:40 +0000

( reference : http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/index.html )
By browsing here , you are able to look through the package list :

http://public-yum.oracle.com/

You could easily add this repository by ;

Oracle Enterprise Linux 4, Update 6 or Newer

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# mv Oracle-Base.repo Oracle-Base.repo.disabled
# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el4.repo

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo

After this you are again up and running , yum search your way to your missing package !