> 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bit out of date.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. Why? Well, I have inherited this system. The previous administrator had a subscription to up2date that has expired. I have been informed that yum can update our server in place of up2date so I am attempting to download it in order to update the server. Are you telling me yum will not work for this purpose? Am I not going to be able to utilize yum for updates to redhat? Steve
