On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 13:20 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:15 -0600, kevin@kevinkempterllc.com wrote:
Hi List;
Sorry for the OT post. However I suspect if anyone outside of RH can help with this question it would be this list.
I'm starting a new contract with a shop that knows little about Linux and I'm helping pave the way. I've "inherited" an existing Linux install (RHEL4). I want to setup some tools but I find that yum is not installed. Is this normal for a RH box ? I thought that the RH up2date tool used yum under the covers.
Anyhow, is there an easy way to get yum installed on this box ? I do have VNC access - and I can run KDE in the VNC connection even though according to the add/remove software tool KDE is not installed by changing the xstartup file forthat user under ~/.vnc (wierd!!)
I suspect the answer is to find & download a yum rpm for redhat and install it via rpm but I want to be sure I dont do something stupid on a client system.
RHEL uses 'up2date'
up2date -u man up2date
There is a list for RHEL 4
There are also NO repositories for RHEL.
Everything is done via the RHN and/or up2date.
That is just how RHEL works ... they do not have repo trees that are browse-able.
up2date can do installs, you can also install via RHN.
If the person does not have a valid RHN subscription then there is no way to install packages ... unless they have never done updates, then system-config-packages can be used.