Dear John VV

I have taken large instance only and redhat and amazon have tie up and its licensed version only and now i m able to find yum.repos.d folder in /etc/ but i am not able to find entry of the linux os in yum repository.

Hi,

The version of the distribution is not mentioned in that folder. That folder is where the definition files for the yum repositories are saved. As indicated by John VV, contact AWS support and ask them about your problem. I don't have personal experience with Amazon EC2 but on their site I only see Red Hat 6.2 as AMIs (Amazon Machine Image). Your best chances to get this solved are to contact AWS support.

Kind regards,

Eric

Dear John VV,

can you please tell me how to install yum newly in the same machine... I am not able to find the URL to download .rpm file for yum for redhat 5.4

some clarification please

you are renting a amazon cloud server ?
or
you physically have a server ( one you can see and touch )



on RHEL 5.4 you do not install "yum"
it is installed already

you just do not have any repos installed to install software from

if amazon will let you install software to the os running on there server ( big if , you need to ask them )

two options
1)
then buy a rhel5 license
and talk to the sales rep and explain your situation
they can point you to a link where you can get the " RHN.repo " [ Red Hat Network . "software" (repo)sitory ] and anything else you need

or

2)
migrate the RHEL5.4 to CentOS 5.8
( should work going from 5.4 to 5.8 )
see the centOS migration guide
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Migrat...=%28migrate%29

and use the code for the older unsupported version
as root !!!!
now if the above works and you have CentOS 5 listed on the REBOOT ( if amazon allows you to reboot a remote machine )

-- again talk to Amazon cloud service you might not be able to do any of this , or you might ?

PS.
once you do this

rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes redhat-release yum-rhn-plugin redhat-logos
there is NO going back


and if all the above works you still need to upgrade the unsupported centos 5.4 to centos 5.8
( that is easy so if you can get this far then we can walk you through that )

Dear John VV,

We renting a cloud server see i have taken another instance at amazon ec2 server and in that machine yum is working fine for me.. but for this specific instance its not working.

Dear John VV,

Can you please tell me how to install apt-get on linux machine for RH 5.4 please help me on this.

Basically i want to install gcc and java on my OS so i was using yum ..

if yum is not working then i will go with apt-get and install gcc and java

apt-get
is a Debian program and is not supported on RedHat OS's

it you want to use apt-get
then install Debian 6 or 7


have your Amazon tech service install the needed red hat repo files

that is what your missing
the files that tell yum where to look

Dear John VV,

Can i know how can i update the repo files of yum

See my post #9; we need to check what you've got first.

Dear Chris,

There is nothing in that directory.


root@ip-10-12-195-154:[/root]
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
root@ip-10-12-195-154:[/etc/yum.repos.d]
$ ll
total 0

You mentioned another instance you have that works. If its the same OS and major version (ie RHEL v5.x), you can probably copy over the repo files and run them here.
You should probably ask Amazon though, if they are supplying the instance that's not working.

Chris needs you to run these commands in your terminal.


Here's an example of mine in Fedora-

In post #25, he showed that the dir is empty...

My bad; sorry as he clearly said-
Wondering why it's empty and should this be so?
Trying to understand-

Hi,

That's because it's Red Hat. Unless you register with RHN no repositories get configured/activated, except for CD/DVD in best case scenario. If you work with Red Hat you pay the subscription, register with RHN and that will give you access to the repositories.

Kind regards,

Eric