how to install yum package on linux RHEL 4?

Question

when i run root@localhost# yum install package_name command on linux terminal it gives:

bash: yum: command not found 

because i don't have yello update and modifier package install on my linux . for that i mount my linux iso disc.and write command

root@localhost# cd /meida/RHEL_4/i386/ Disk/ 1/
root@localhost RHEL_4 i386 Disk 1# ls

but there is no package directory. and i didn't find any http url form downloading(wget) yum.x.x.x.rpm. i have linux RHEL 4 AS version installed. plz help

Solution

Yum is not compatible with RHEL 4 (FOR RHN Stuff). They don't officially ship yum with rhel4 instead use legacy 'up2date' utility. up2date is similar to yum but far less featured package management utility but good in dependency resolution. It resolves the packages dependencies in same way, yum do.

Anyway, You can get the rpm package here, http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...oview/yum.html. Just download it and install using rpm -ivh command. don't expect, yum will download the packages from RHN. to sync with rhn you still have to use up2date.

Comments

[Sandeep vashisth]

yes it is not install on my system i have all ready run the command rpm -qa but yum rpm is not in the list

[Sandeep vashisth]

actually i don't have yum-x.x.x.noarch.rpm on my system and not even in my disk

[Sandeep vashisth]

given url for rpm package download dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...oview/yum.html was not found on server