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.
Thanks in advance...
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
nahant-list mailing list https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nahant-list
Craig
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.
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.
Thanks in advance...
HI -
This one freaked me out a few weeks ago, too.
Try that.
Thanks -dant
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.
Not for RHEL4 it doesn't, althought up2date is capable of using(fumbling through) yum repositories.
The easiest way to put yum on a RHEL box is to get yum package and associated dependencies from CentOS. Keep in mind that there are no publicly available yum repositories for official RHEL packages. You'll either have to use up2date, create your own repository, or convert to CentOS for the base and updates repositories. Beyond that, 3rd party repositories like dag, dries, rpmforge etc work just fine with rhel using yum.
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.
If it's a 'server' running KDE it may be too late for that already...
/long live the console
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