This blog tells you how to create a local repository from a RHEL installer DVD iso image. Firstly please note that RHEL is not a free software. To get access to the fully up-to-date repositories (RHN) a paid subscription is required.Without this subscription it will not be possible to get security updates and the newest versions of packages. An alternative for using RHEL would be CentOS or Scientific Linux . Both are free and almost identical to RHEL. The below steps should only be used for testing, studying or evaluation purposes. The steps below are based on RHEL server 6.4 but the basics are the same for other versions. Pre Conditions prior performing the following setup steps. - RHEL installed system, - ~4-8 GB free space on disk. All the below steps are to be executed with root privileges. 1. A directory needs to be created which will contain the repository with following command: $ mkdir /mnt/rhel_repo 2. Mount the DVD disk or iso image wit