I've found with numerous VPS providers the templates they use dont come pre-installed with yum.

Do the following to install yum:


rpm -ivh http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.6.23-1.2.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.2.1.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-python-4.4.2-15.2.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.6.0-1.noarch.rpm



Do the above from SSH in that order and yum will install without any problems.

Or you can tell your VPS provider to do a VZyum [id] install yum for you if their main node is on a 32 bit OS which most don't.