[Yum] install related question(s)

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:08 -0800, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Many thanks for your response.
> 
> > It looks like you're using red hat enterprise linux 4.
> Yes, I am told that Redhat 2.6.9 is linux 4.
> 
> > What's your goal in installing yum on rhel4?
> This may sound a bit convoluted to you, but my short-
> term goal is to implement something called openNMS.
> Somewhere in their website
> (http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page)
> I read that the best way to do it is via yum.  But
> as longer-term goal, I am interested in yum as a
> general purpose tool.
> 
> > you probably want to install yum via an rpm.
> I am not as familiar with rpm commands.  I am more
> familiar with tools like make.
> 
> Do you have any recommendation as to how I should
> proceed?

the problem is just having yum on a system isn't really enough. You need
to also have access to the repositories for your distribution. In this
case rhel4 has yum repositories available but they can't be gotten to by
the version of yum that runs on rhel4. So it's a bit of a catch22 b/c of
the version of rhel you're on.

So you have a couple of choices:
1. setup your on rhel4 repos - not trivial
2. use the centos4 repos instead. Look at www.centos.org for how to do
that. However, keep in mind if you have support contracts related to
running rhel4 then running centos4 won't qualify in some cases. It's
nothing against centos it's just one of those weird legal things.

-sv