I just recently installed a brand new Redhat AS4 - 64-bit OS. Since I'm used to Fedora I was wondering if it's adviseable to install yum. I did try before writing here.

Can yum be used together with the already operating "up2date" feature, e.g. can I use yum to find and install a program and still use up2date to update my system.
Since I am somewhat of a newbie in the liuxworld it is quite possible I did some newbie mistake. in any case this is what I did and the error I got.

rpm -Uvh yum-2.4.2-1.src.rpm

warning: yum-2.4.2-1.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 69886cc7
error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

I'd really appriciate any help.

You are trying to install a source rpm (src = source), which is meant to be rebuilt into an rpm. YUM will work fine with RHEL 4.x but I don't think Redhat provides YUM or YUM repos for RHEL. CentOS which is a free RHEL rebuild uses YUM, so you could download their version of YUM and install that. There are several articles on google that can help you setup CentOS YUM on RHEL 4 (search for "RHEL+4+YUM"). Note that using CentOS YUM on RHEL may replace some Redhat packages with CentOS packages.

Thanks for the quick reply. I followed the instructions found at: http://www.eth0.us/yum-rhel
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mkdir /usr/local/src/yum
cd /usr/local/src/yum

wget http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/ap...6-2.noarch.rpm
wget http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/ap...1.6-1.i386.rpm
wget http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/ap...2.6-4.i386.rpm
wget http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/ap...6-2.noarch.rpm
wget http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/ap...4.3.noarch.rpm
wget http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/ap...os4.noarch.rpm.
wget http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/ap...2.2-1.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh *rpm
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I had to replace yum-2.4.0-1.centos4.noarch.rpm. with version 2.4.2-2, since the former did't exist. The same for yum-config (4.4-3 against 4.4-5).

unfortunately this resulted in the following error:


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:> yum

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, Feb 6 2006, 10:38:45)
[GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)]
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Did I install a too old version of yum (that requires an older version of python), or what is the probelm? also, is there absolutely no problem of installing the i386 versions of all these programs when I'm using a 64 bits machine?
Thanks again for any help,

Hi I am having the same issues. Did you ever fix it? Please let me know how.

Many thanks
Danny

Read the section Bootstrapping Yum. It tells you the packages that have to be replaced.

Thanks I will have a read