Installation of Repositories
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Once your vm is able to access the internet, install the public yum repository as follows:
1. Login to your vm as the root user
2. Issue the command:
[root@servername]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
[root@servername]# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo
To install the security plugin, issue the following command:
[root@servername]# yum install yum-security
After the plugin is installed, to only perform security-related updates issue the command:
[root@servername]# yum --security update
For more information and options for using the yum security plugin, issue the command:
[root@servername]# man yum-security
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Once your vm is able to access the internet, install the public yum repository as follows:
1. Login to your vm as the root user
2. Issue the command:
[root@servername]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
[root@servername]# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo
Optional - Limiting Updates to Security Only
To install the security plugin, issue the following command:
[root@servername]# yum install yum-security
After the plugin is installed, to only perform security-related updates issue the command:
[root@servername]# yum --security update
For more information and options for using the yum security plugin, issue the command:
[root@servername]# man yum-security
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