Installing Yum

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If your server is CentOS or RedHat Linux Enterprise, you would normally use yum for updates of important components or to obtain new ones. If your system does not already have yum installed, the following will get that corrected for you.

In root ssh on the server, run the following commands:

On CentOS 4 i386 distributions

rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/4.6/os/alpha/CentOS/RPMS/centos-yumconf-4-4.5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch.rpm

On CentOS 5 i386 distributions

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm

After grabbing the right rpms for your CentOS version, then run the following:

yum update yum

If you are missing any other dependencies, please note that you can find a list of other RPMs you might need to use at this location.

If you get the following error:

error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

Run this command:

mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES