HOWTO: Install YUM on CentOS ver4.5 VPS

[PsyCHZZZ]

Hi guys,

I just thought of sharing this simple howto on installing YUM onto your VPS as it seems like it doesn't come installed by default.

The repository and package version are the latest as of July 25th 2007 and are meant for CentOS 4.5.

Just copy and paste the code below.

mkdir /usr/local/src/yum
cd /usr/local/src/yum

wget http://altruistic.lbl.gov/mirrors/centos/4.5/apt/i386/RPMS.os/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
wget http://altruistic.lbl.gov/mirrors/centos/4.5/apt/i386/RPMS.os/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget http://altruistic.lbl.gov/mirrors/centos/4.5/apt/i386/RPMS.os/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm
wget http://altruistic.lbl.gov/mirrors/centos/4.5/apt/i386/RPMS.os/yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
wget http://altruistic.lbl.gov/mirrors/centos/4.5/apt/i386/RPMS.os/sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm
wget http://altruistic.lbl.gov/mirrors/centos/4.5/apt/i386/RPMS.os/sqlite-devel-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh *rpm

yum update

[marcb]

when I do the yum update I get:

[root@server yum]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
rpmforge : 1/7710Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main
result, resultmsgs = do()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 477, in doCommands
return self.updatePkgs()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 955, in updatePkgs
self.doRepoSetup()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 75, in doRepoSetup
self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo)
File "__init__.py", line 260, in doSackSetup
File "repos.py", line 287, in populateSack
File "sqlitecache.py", line 96, in getPrimary
File "sqlitecache.py", line 89, in _getbase
File "sqlitecache.py", line 359, in updateSqliteCache
File "sqlitecache.py", line 251, in addPrimary
File "sqlitecache.py", line 197, in insertHash
File "sqlitecache.py", line 449, in values
File "sqlitecache.py", line 441, in __getitem__
File "mdparser.py", line 73, in __getitem__
KeyError: 'epoch'
[root@server yum]#


Any thoughts?

Marc

[lamnk]

Hmm ... check your python version ? If it's old, download the newest stable source from python.org then compile & install.

[marcb]

wasn't the python version...

seems the rpmforge.repo file isn't compatible to yum... ended up locating the rpm's I needed and manually installing them...

Marc