How to install applications on rhel 4?

calande · 04-18-2007, 08:16 PM

I was reading the RHEL 4 docs:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...hical-rpm.html

I'm trying to install a few Python frameworks packages on my RHEL 4 server. I run a genuine version that was bought together with the server at SoftLayer. From the docs it doesn't say how to install from the terminal. The only thing I can see if that you can use rpm, but this doesn't deal with dependencies. I need to install psycopg, mysqldb and pysqlite. How could I do that? Should I download them from a repository? Do I have to install all dependencies manually?
Thanks,

b0uncer · 04-19-2007, 01:40 PM

Fedora uses yum command line package manager, see if it's on RHEL too. I could imagine it is. Read

Code:

man yum

if it is there, to see what it's about. Basically you update the package list with

Code:

yum update

and install stuff with

Code:

yum install mysql

for example. Yum deals with dependencies if possible, i.e. if they are found from the reposities; this should work as long as you use the official reposities, but if you enable non-official reposities they may have some versions which conflict.

calande · 04-19-2007, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by b0uncer

Fedora uses yum command line package manager, see if it's on RHEL too. I could imagine it is. Read

Code:

man yum

Thanks, no it's not:

Code:

# man yum
No manual entry for yum
#

Any idea?

twantrd · 04-20-2007, 07:41 PM

Use 'up2date'. Example, up2date --install <package_name>

-twantrd

calande · 04-20-2007, 08:01 PM

Thanks! This worked fine, there's even man pages for up2date: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/up2date.8.html