How to install leapp packages on an offline system for RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.X upgrade ?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7.9

Issue

• How to install leapp-upgrade packages on an offline system for RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.X upgrade ?
• My system is not connected to internet. How can I download and install leapp-upgrade packages ?

Resolution

• Download packages and their dependencies from This content is not included.Red Hat Customer Portal
  Note: Confirm the Product Variant before starting the package download.

• Below is the list of packages and their dependencies :

  audit
  audit-libs
  audit-libs-python                     
  checkpolicy               
  dnf
  dnf-data
  json-glib                                            
  leapp                                     
  leapp-deps
  leapp-upgrade-el7toel8
  leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-deps
  libcgroup
  libcomps
  libdnf
  libmodulemd
  librepo
  libreport-filesystem
  librhsm
  libsemanage-python
  libsolv
  libyaml
  pciutils
  policycoreutils
  policycoreutils-python
  python-IPy
  python-chardet
  python-enum34
  python-requests
  python-urllib3
  python2-dnf
  python2-hawkey
  python2-leapp
  python2-libcomps
  python2-libdnf
  setools-libs
  

• Create a folder /tmp/packages on offline system, copy all the rpms to /tmp/packages. Install the packages.

  # mkdir /tmp/packages
  # cd /tmp/packages
  # yum localinstall *
  

• To proceed with upgrade using ISO How to in-place upgrade an offline / disconnected RHEL 7 machine to RHEL 8 with Leapp?

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