[CentOS] Yum

Wed Aug 6 18:40:36 UTC 2008
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Bent Terp <bent at terp.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
> <mohsen at pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> When i install CentOS, it doesn't install yum package.
>> How i do it?
>> when i haven't yum, it is like that i haven't apt-get.
>> Please help me....
>> Yours,
>> Mohsen
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>
> Sounds like you need to talk to the support staff where you bought the
> VPServer - after all, they're the ones responsible for creating your
> problem.
>
> Alternatively, you could try 'rpm --upgrade
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm"
> - add dependencies ad nauseam.

Hosts normally advertise a VPS as being almost like a Dedicated
Server. Lots of resources and lots of options. In this case,
without being able to use yum, it starts as a Security problem,
because he cannot update the packages that are
installed. His second problem is that he cannot install new software
with yum, which eliminates a lot of options. Unlike Shared Hosting,
which is Managed, someone with a VPS must Manage their VPS, as if it
was a Dedicated Server, or, pay someone to do that. But, how
would they manage it, without yum? It's much more difficult, without
yum. IMHO, he should look for a VPS with another provider, that allows
him to use yum, etc.