Comments on: Howto: Install yum On RHEL 4

By: dragonlair

dragonlair — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:10:41 +0000

thanks for the trick. its super.

for bipper in #8, you can use the yum rpm and the dependencies in http://www.freevps.com/download/yum/RHEL4/
it works for me.

By: bipper

bipper — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:43:46 +0000

http://yum.baseurl.org/download/2.0/yum-2.0.8.tar.gz

I did wget http://yum.baseurl.org/download/2.0/yum-2.0.8.tar.gz instead. It seems the non archived files were removed, killing your link.

By: TASSEMBEDO Ismahil

TASSEMBEDO Ismahil — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:18:43 +0000

This worked perfectly fine for me too.
Thanks for your Howto!

By: iwahd

iwahd — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:06:33 +0000

Worked perfect on RHEL4.7. thanks

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:16:34 +0000

Thanks so much, worked great first time no problems!

By: stovie

stovie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:40:14 +0000

Thanks! I ran through your instructions and they worked perfectly on RHEL4.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:01:33 +0000

Thanks for the guide. I was having trouble finding a good updated guide to installing YUM on RHEL4. This worked perfectly for me the first time.

Good work.

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By: Nata

Nata — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:05:05 +0000

If it worked in 2006, it doesn’t in 2008.
Options, paths to release repositories changed and the commands have to be modified.
I’m using rhel 4.2 on VmWare since I can’t get a lab machine from my admin to upgrade to rhel 5.0, which is required for evaluating new packages. I installed yum2.0.8 but it does not see the new package repo using yum list.

By: A tip on how to install yum in RHEL 4

A tip on how to install yum in RHEL 4 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:35:27 +0000

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