Hi, just tried to install yum from by downloading yum-2.4.3-1.src.rpm from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.4/.

Did the usual stuff:

rpm -Uvh yum-2.4.3-1.src.rpm

but got the following:

warning: yum-2.4.3-1.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 69886cc7
1:yum warning: user skvidal does not exist - using root
warning: group skvidal does not exist - using root
warning: user skvidal does not exist - using root)
warning: group skvidal does not exist - using root


But it seemed to have produced the tar file in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3.tar.gz. So switched to that directory, gunzip .. and then tar xvf ... .

However, I could not find an install file or a configure file which I could run. There are some words in INSTALL file:

For usage information, please see the README.

run make
run make install, if you're a masochist.

you're better off making an rpm and installing it

But README contains just a descrition of what yum does.

When I run make, all I get is:


for d in repomd rpmUtils yum etc docs; do make PYTHON=python -C $d; [ $? = 0 ] || exit 1 ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/repomd'
echo "Nothing to do"
Nothing to do
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/repomd'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/rpmUtils'
echo "Nothing to do"
Nothing to do
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/rpmUtils'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/yum'
echo "Nothing to do"
Nothing to do
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/yum'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/etc'
echo "Nothing to do"
Nothing to do
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/etc'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/docs'
echo "Nothing to do"
Nothing to do
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/yum-2.4.3/docs'

How do I proceed to install yum?

My computer is 64-bit RHEL v4 WS.

Thanks.

what you've downloaded is an old source rpm.
get yum from dag's site:

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/

Thanks. I downloaded from this site, and downloaded all the other packages associated with it.

But when I run yum this is what i get:

[root@**** ]# yum list lam*
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cElementTree.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.3.4 (#1, Nov 20 2007, 15:12:42)
[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq



What is this all about? (Note that I have downloaded elementtree package.)

Thanks