Hi,

can anyone help me get yum working on RHEL4. I have installed the package but when I run a yum update I get the following error.

root@ yum.repos.d]# rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
warning: rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:rpmforge-release ########################################### [100%]
[root@ yum.repos.d]# yum update yum
Insufficient server config - no servers found. Aborting.
[root@ yum.repos.d]# rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
[root@ yum.repos.d]# rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK

[root@ yum.repos.d]# yum check-update
Insufficient server config - no servers found. Aborting.
[root@ yum.repos.d]# yum install yum-plugin-priorities
Insufficient server config - no servers found. Aborting.
[root@ yum.repos.d]# yum update
Insufficient server config - no servers found. Aborting.

OK I have moved this forward a little. But am now getting these errors.

#yum list
Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration
Setting up repositories
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4ES/...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Not sure if this is a problem with /etc/redhat-release file haven't incorrect release details for the yum variables. But am not sure.

Here is my /etc/yum.conf file

# more /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-devel kernel-smp-devel kernel-largesmp kernel-largesmp-devel kernel
-hugemem kernel-hugemem-devel
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d


[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
[root@icgweb02 newreleases]#



and my /etc/redhat-release file

# more /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)

My advice is: stick with up2date.

If you're already familiar with yum, see here for up2date equivalents: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-2531

here is one of your problems
You CAN NOT INSTALL rhel 5 rpm's and MOST DEFINITELY NOT an rhel 5 REPO on rhel 4
you must install the el4 repo and NOT the el5 repo.

Hi,

I have double checked and have not installed the rpmforge for EL5,

I will look to download the rpmforge for RHEL4.

rpm -qa rpmforge returned nothing, I must have downloaded that in my haste.

Thanks all for the replies but I am unable to use up2date as it prompts me to re-register and we no longer have any subscriptions for RHN.

So will need to install and use yum.

When I run YUM I get the following error.
yum list
Setting up repositories
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 4ES is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet

this seems to be a release issue, maybe the /etc/redhat-release file is the issue.

From your first post.


The el5 part of that rpm indicates that it is for el5 and not el4.

Here are the instruction for installing yum on RHEL4:

ok so my yum is now getting thus far after installing the following packages:

yum-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh yum-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm
nano /etc/yum.conf
changed the baseurl in [base] to
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/centos/4/os/$basearch/
changed the baseurl in [updates] to
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/centos/4/updates/$basearch/


[root@etc]# yum list
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core Null - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/cen...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/cen...rs/header.info
[Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):


Maybe an incorrect BASE URL ?

Yum is installed on my RHEL4, but when I run yum it cannot locate any repo's

can anyone help me on this one.

Do I have to add some extra repo sites to CentOS Base file in /etc/yum.repos.d

yum.repos.d]# yum list
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core Null - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...rs/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Weather you use yum or not you CANNOT access RHs repos unless you have a subscription. So yes, you need to use Centos's (or some other compatable) repo.

The version of yum that you listed above is also really old, see the link I posted above.

this is just VERY odd .You say you are using red hat enterprise 4 ( rhel4 ) BUT yum is throwing a "fedora core" error????
so is this rhel4 OR fedora 1,2,3,4 ,5

or do you for some reason have a fedora repo installed on that rhel4 box ??
can you post the out put of
but i am not sure if that very old yum on rhel 4 has this option
but to be honest rhel 4 is before my time 5.2 i know

yum was not available for RHEL4(from Red Hat). After yum became the "standard", Fedora and Centos, RH added it, starting with RHEL5.X.

Even with C4 the defualt yum was 2.4.X., FC4 used 2.4 as well(I think).

Thanks all for your replies and help.

I finally got YUM working on RHEL4.

Once the correct YUM and other packages were installed I just had to correct my URL's in my repo's for the Centos Mirrors. Like so.

yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf
python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm
python-sqlite-1.0.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
python-celementtree-1.0.2-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
python-sqlite-0.5.0-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
sqlite-2.8.16-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

Then the correct repo's in /etc/yum.repos.d/

Add the Centos Mirrors into CentOS-Base.repo - Base and Updates as below

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
# mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/$basearch/
# baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
#exclude=postgresql*

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
# mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

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