On Wed, August 6, 2008 13:40, Lanny Marcus wrote: > 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. FTP? Rpm? Ftp up a suitable yum rpm and install it. (Maybe it's really part of an active attempt to keep people from installing software, but on a virtual private server that'd be amazingly stupid; so I'm guessing, from a great distance and very little information, that it's something simpler like just not having installed yum.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info