VPS setup up install yum on FC5

[mandella]

im trying to follow this guide http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_5 to set up my vps. first thing, i checked to see if yum was installed, it was not. i looked in the forums and found this great example:
yum on vps
but this is for a different distro, and im still a noob with linux. so im a little hesitent. And i'd like to try it myself before pestering support with a new ticket. any ideas?

[AlexKall]

Basicly you go here -> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...s/Fedora/RPMS/ (It takes along time to load, so just be patient)

(I use Fedora Core 4 on my server so I go to the same address but change 5 with a 4)

Search for yum. There will be an rpm file there. (search through your browser)
right click and copy the link of the file you want (in this case yum)

In SSH: cd to the directory you want to store the downloaded RPM files, such as root (~)

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...0-1.noarch.rpm

rpm -Ugh yum-2.6.0-1.noarch.rpm

This will install it. But you will probebly get an error that you need a few more RPMS, search for them in the previus list, do the same as I showed you with yum package. When you have installed all those packages that yum needs you will have to run:

rpm -Ugh yum-2.6.0-1.noarch.rpm

Once again to install (or show the name of a package you forgot to install)
It might work instantly if so it will tell you that it has installed the package. And you're ready to run yum install/remove/search etc

Hope that helped, if you have any questions just post them here or send me a PM on this forum

[mandella]

thanks, i'll try that soon as i can!

[Rob]

Open a ticket the techs should be able to do it for you seeing as the VPS plans are managed

[AlexKall]

It's a very good thing to do it yourself if you want to lern an new OS