With many thanks for your help , please let me know why I am receiving the followings ? [root@mss-1 tmp]# rpm -Uvh yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm warning: yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897 error: Failed dependencies: python-elementtree is needed by yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch python-iniparse is needed by yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch python-sqlite is needed by yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch urlgrabber >= 3.1.0 is needed by yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch yum-fastestmirror is needed by yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0 is needed by yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch
You need to get the packages listed above that are dependencies of yum. Download each of these packages from the same mirror site you downloaded the yum package from. Put them all in the same directory (without other RPMs) and run "rpm -Uvh *.rpm"
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