[Yum] Installing Yum

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 13:57 -0500, JoAnna Green wrote:
> I went through this exercise for RHEL4 box, i386.  This works for me, 
> your mileage may vary.  Not using the latest version of yum though so 
> you may want to update some of these packages. Methodology should be the 
> same.
> 
> Download yum-2.4.2-1.src.rpm
> rpmbuild --rebuild yum.2.4-2-1.src.rpm
> creates /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/yum-2.4.2-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> rpm -Uvh sqlite-2.8.16-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm         (Dag)
> rpm -Uvh python-sqlite-0.5.0-1.2.elr4.rf.i386.rpm
> rpm -Uvh python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.2.el4.rf.noaarch.rpm
> rpm -Uvh ptyhon-elementtree-1.26-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm   (not sure I 
> really needed this one)
> rpm -Uvh python-celementtree-1.0.2-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
> rpm -Uvh yum-2.4.2-1.noarch.rpm
> rpm -Uvh yum-utils-0.3.1-1.fc4.noarch.rpm   ( I need for repository)
> rpm -Uvh createrepo-0.3.1-1.noarch.rpm

That's an old createrepo.

don't use that.

also just get the pkgs for yum from a centos 4 repository.

it is VASTLY simpler.

-sv