4.2.5. Activating the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Repository

Procedure 4.12. Activate the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Repository

1. List all available subscriptions, and identify the Red Hat Satellite 5 subscription.
   The list of available subscriptions may be long, but if you pipe the output into a pager utility, such as less or more, you can read the output one screenful at a time.

   # subscription-manager list --all --available | less
   

   Note the Pool ID as this is required to attach the subscription.
2. Attach the subscription to the Red Hat Satellite host.

   # subscription-manager attach --pool=pool_id

   The output should be similar to the following:

   Successfully attached a subscription for: Red Hat Satellite
   

3. Disable all repositories.

   # subscription-manager repos --disable "*"
   

4. Enable the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 repository.
   For ⁠AMD64 and Intel 64

   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-6-server-rpms
   

   For IBM System z

   # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-6-for-system-z-rpms