Trying to install YUM on CentOS...

SJH · 09-01-2009, 07:48 AM

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install YUM on CentOS 5, so I logged in and typed:

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm

And this gives me the following error:

Code:

error: Failed dependencies:
        yum-fastestmirror is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch

So I typed in the following:

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm

And this resulted in...

Code:

error: Failed dependencies:
        yum >= 3.0 is needed by yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch

It seems that one package relies on the other and therefore I can't install either of them!

Could anyone please advise me on what to do here?

Cheers

MensaWater · 09-01-2009, 08:15 AM

yum is installed with CentOS by default so I'm curious why you think you need to install it?

Try typing "rpm -qa |grep yum" to see which if any yum packages are installed. It may simply be you need a newer version which you could get by typing "yum update yum".

Anyway ignoring all that the way to resolve cross dependencies like the one you're seeing is simply to include both packages in the same command:

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm

That way it knows the dependency is being resolved during the install of the packages.

SJH · 09-01-2009, 08:51 AM

Hi jlightner,

Yeah that's what I thought, but there was no sign of Yum on there when I first logged in. FWIW, it's a VPS with Plesk installed on it. Perhaps the provider of the server thought it wise to remove the default Yum install before letting me loose on it...

Anyway, your suggestion worked perfectly, and I now have Yum installed. Thanks for your help

Sam