I got a round tuit and went to the fedora legacy pages. There are great tutorials on YUM for 7.3 and 7.2, but not for 8.0. The instructions for installing the apt using rpm don't work exactly as stated. I would like to offer these snippets for someone to put into a "yum for redhat 8.0" page very similar to the ones for 7.2/7.3 ==================================================================== Take the entire 7.3 yum page. Add/change the following information: ======================================================================= Yum for Redhat 8.0 can be obtained from freshrpms.net. It is the rpm: yum-2.0.3-5.rh.fr.i386.rpm http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1117 (you can also search for yum on their master page) Note: it is also listed at speakeasy.rpmfind.net. Yum requires the gnupg, python, and rpm-python packages. The standard gnupg and python packages that come with the redhat 8.0 CD can be installed. rpm-python will be updated below. Yum also requires glibc 2.3.2, which is available from http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/8.0/updates/i386/ glibc-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386.rpm Yum also requires later versions of RPM. This is a good thing, as getting the updated RPM's also fix the hangs you will experience with rpm for redhat 8.0. The updated rpm packages are at: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/ they are: rpm-4.1.1-1.8x.i386.rpm rpm-build-4.1-8x.i386.rpm popt-1.7.1-1.8x.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.1.1-1.8x.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.1.1-1.8x.i386.rpm Note: A discussion of RPM hangs for redhat 8.0 is at: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ Finally, you have to add the fedora legacy site to the Yum for redhat 8.0 /etc/yum.conf file. Mine looks like this and appears to work, but it may not be totally correct: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release gpgcheck=1 tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [os] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - os baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/os [freshrpms] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch [legacy-utils] name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/updates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
