if you cannot compile maybe you would need to install compiler.

No, I think that is not the case. For compiling the package he need to download tar package, extract and then after getting into that directory he need to compile that package.

Thats what my question is.

How can i compile the extracted content.

What all are the files in extracted content, can you post them here?

I am not able to extract them

Can you please suggest?

Using this above mentioned command you can extract the package. And show the contents of the package.

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But I don't think that extracting the contents of rpm package would be of any use. You need to download tar package of yum and rpm package and compile them.

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i dont have rpm2cpio installed.
And it cannot be installed as yum not working.

Any idea where i can download tar package from.

You can download the yum package from this link, http://www.icewalkers.com/download/y.../download.html.
Extract the package and try to compile it.

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I have extracted it
Now how would i install or compile it?

these are the files i got after extraction

[root@HYD1008 yum]# ls
AUTHORS COPYING Makefile rpmUtils yum
bin docs output.py shell.py yumcommands.py
callback.py etc PLUGINS test yummain.py
ChangeLog FAQ po TODO yum.spec
cli.py INSTALL README utils.py yum-updatesd.py

Read INSTALL and README files for further instructions on installing/compiling the package.

Thanks!

Now i m getting this error

There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named yum

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


It seems like yum is installed but python is missing.

If i do Yum i get this

[root@HYD1008 yum]# yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named yum

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:
2.4.3 (#1, Feb 22 2012, 16:05:45)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq

What command you executed to compile? As per the errors you need to install required python modules also which are required by yum. Isn't it?

Make
Make Install

Will you please attach INSTALL and README files. So that I can also go through these files.