How to install yum

how to install yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

This case applies to most Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, from i386 to i686 machines, i’ve successfully used it on our Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6):
To use it for other systems / architectures, check the packages given at (check).
1. Get the main packages
(check) http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/

(REDHAT 4 )
$wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

(redhat 3)
$wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/yum-2.0.8-0.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libsqlite.so.0&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/PLD/dists/ac/ready/i386/libsqlite-2.8.15-1.i386.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=python-elementtree&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=python-sqlite&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/python-sqlite-0.5.0-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/
search.php?query=urlgrabber&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.7-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

2. Install Rpm’s

$rpm -ivh libsqlite-2.8.15-1.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh python-sqlite-0.5.0-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh python-urlgrabber-2.9.7-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
$rpm -ivh yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

3. Setup the Repository
(check) http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/

$wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

4. Yum update all packages

$yum update


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