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There are a number of ways of installing additional RPM packages from installation media. However, if your network is fast and you are installing the same packages on a number of systems, it sometimes is easier to set up a simple local package repository and use yum to install the packages from there. This post shows you how to do this. Copy the new packages, or even the contents of an entire distribution to a suitable subdirectory on a local webserver. For example, if you are using an Apache webserver on RHEL or Fedora, suitable locations would probably be /var/www/html/repos/rhel6/