On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:21:52PM -0500, Steve Ingraham alleged: > Garrick Staples wrote: > >> I am new to Linux and yum. I am attempting to install yum on a > RedHat > >> as 3 machine. I have downloaded yum 2.6.1 from the > >> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ website. I have also extracted > the > >> files currently in /home/yum/. I cannot seem to properly install yum > on > >> this system. Can someone give me some direction on what steps I need > to > >> perform to install yum 2.6.1 onto my computer? > > >As per http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml, you'll see > that > >the python versions on RHEL3 limits yum to 2.0.8. > > Ok, forgive my ignorance as a newbie but I don't really know what that > means in my situation. Have I attempted to download and install an > incompatible version? If so what should I be installing? As stated > before, I am a newbie and seem to be making newbie mistakes but don't > know I am doing so. If I am incorrectly attempting something I should > not be attempting what exactly am I needing to do instead? RHEL3 is a slightly older distro, that means some of its software is a bit out of date. One of those packages is python. If you run 'rpm -q python', you'll see that you have python-2.2. Reading the yum download page, you can see that yum-2.6 requires python-2.4. The last version of yum that supports python-2.2 is yum-2.0, so you need to download from the yum-2.0.x link. But we might want to back up and ask, "Why do you want yum?" RHEL isn't a free distro and doesn't have any yum repositories. -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20061019/0bcad180/attachment.bin
