"File contains no section headers" error while installing package in RHEL 7.5

Hi,

Installing packages are part of the task for any migration and installation. Usually OS team will take care of such tasks. Few cases DBA will get root access to the server, Thus DBA can install any package in the server.

Read step by step R12 installation

I was middle of the installation of R12 and there are few packages were missing in the server. You can install package in the server by two ways either using "rpm -qa" command or using YUM. YUM method is very convenient as per my opinion.

Below error encountered while installing package :

[root@proddb Packages_RHEL_CD]# yum install **********************.rpm

Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager

This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

File contains no section headers.

file: file:///etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo, line: 2

'name=RHEL 7.5\n'

Below are the contents of the repository :

You can find the repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d

All files with *.repo will be the repositories.

[root@proddb yum.repos.d]# cat local.repo
name=RHEL 7.5
baseurl=file:///mnt/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///mnt/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release


Fix :

I added the header in the repository file.

[root@proddb yum.repos.d]# cat local.repo
[rhelrepo]
name=RHEL 7.5
baseurl=file:///mnt/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///mnt/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

Now everything went well.

Thanks!

Sikky