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[ohyea]

I've done

wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/y....rf.noarch.rpm

to install yum on a dedi.

What's the next step?

It is centOS 6.2 64 bits.

thanks

[host-slim]

Did you set up the yum repo's?

[markhard]

why would you install yum manually? it should come pre-installed with centos server

[KMyers]

Originally Posted by markhard

why would you install yum manually? it should come pre-installed with centos server

Agreed, yum is a stock function of cent os.

Try running 'which yum' as root.

[ohyea]

Originally Posted by KMyers

Agreed, yum is a stock function of cent os.

Try running 'which yum' as root.

I think I bought a box a little bit more empty than I was expecting, unmanaged but I got to learn.

which yum gives me /usr/bin/yum

I believe I've downloaded yum but now how do I open the file and install?

[KMyers]

Originally Posted by ohyea

I think I bought a box a little bit more empty than I was expecting, unmanaged but I got to learn.

which yum gives me /usr/bin/yum

I believe I've downloaded yum but now how do I open the file and install?

Hello,
if which yum returns /usr/bin/yum then that means yum is already installed by default. You should be able to use it by running yum update, and yum install XXXXX.
On most modern distros, there is no need to manually install and build yum.

[ohyea]

Originally Posted by host-slim

Did you set up the yum repo's?

yum list installed gives me stuff mostly greyed out, a few white and one is even red.

last time i played around with repositories and centos, I kept breaking centos because apparently it's not prepared to handle third party repositories.

so i've downloaded yum from wieers. And not the repositories that contain yum.

[ohyea]

Originally Posted by KMyers

Hello,
if which yum returns /usr/bin/yum then that means yum is already installed by default. You should be able to use it by running yum update, and yum install XXXXX.
On most modern distros, there is no need to manually install and build yum.

Oh, ok, I thought there being no packages when I tried to install phpmyadmin or ftp meant no yum, but I was wrong it seems

Now, what repositories shall I use to install ftp, php, phpmyadmin and other basics? yum doesn't seem to contain them.

[KMyers]

Originally Posted by ohyea

Oh, ok, I thought there being no packages when I tried to install phpmyadmin or ftp meant no yum, but I was wrong it seems

Now, what repositories shall I use to install ftp, php, phpmyadmin and other basics?

Everything for the most part should be in rpmforge.

[ohyea]

Originally Posted by KMyers

Everything for the most part should be in rpmforge.

Doesn't rpmforge have compatibility issues with CentOS?

[ohyea]

I've installed rpmforge using this guide:

http://dev.antoinesolutions.com/rpmforge-repository

the wgetted files are still sitting there though because I'm unsure yet as to how to erase them. Also when I tried to configure rpmforge, and entered /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo I got permission denied.

Now I seemingly have rpmforge, it should work, yet it doesn't.

Because when I try to yum install phpmyadmin, it says no package phpmyadmin available.

[ohyea]

To be fair, the first time I tried to install phpmyadmin with rpmforge already installed, it seemed to go through a process where it queried the rpmforge repositories, but I'm surprised it looked up a redhat folder inside a mirror, because I'm on centOS. This is what I got:

http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/redha...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404"

[markhard]

read here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

for guide on installing additional repositories for centos