I use a lot of VPS and often times, they don’t actually have yum to make my life easier. So here is a quick HOWTO on installing yum on a CentOS box. This assumes that you have rpm and wget already installed. Note: This will only work on CentOS 5.2 while the mirror is still active.
Run the following code in a temporary directory to download all the RPMs.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | #!/bin/bash for file in \ elfutils-0.125-3.el5.i386.rpm \ elfutils-libs-0.125-3.el5.i386.rpm \ expat-1.95.8-8.2.1.i386.rpm \ gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm \ libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.i386.rpm \ libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.i386.rpm \ m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.2.i386.rpm \ python-2.4.3-21.el5.i386.rpm \ python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm \ python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm \ python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm \ python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2.noarch.rpm \ readline-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm \ rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm \ rpm-libs-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm \ rpm-python-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm \ sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm \ yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.1.noarch.rpm \ yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5.i386.rpm do wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.2/os/i386/CentOS/$file; done |
Once you have downloaded the necessary files. Install them all by typing:
1 | # rpm -Uvh *.rpm |
Then feel free to # yum -y update to bring your system up to date.
