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04-05-2008, 12:56 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Software installation
How do one go about installing any software on a VPS that have wget & rpm, but no yum or gcc? Oh, the OS is FC5 btw.
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04-05-2008, 01:11 AM #2Retired Moderator
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Install yum or gcc via an RPM package?
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04-05-2008, 01:30 AM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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04-05-2008, 02:49 AM #4Disabled
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Your host should have the rpms with the dependencies involved
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04-05-2008, 03:18 AM #5Retired Moderator
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Try here: http://ayo.freshrpms.net/
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04-05-2008, 03:54 AM #6WHT Addict
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Basicly you go here -> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...s/Fedora/RPMS/
(It takes along time to load, so just be patient)
Search for yum. There will be an rpm file there. (search through your browser)
right click and copy the link of the file you want (in this case yum)
In SSH: cd to the directory you want to store the downloaded RPM files, such as root (~)
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Ugh yum-2.6.0-1.noarch.rpm
This will install it. But you will probably get an error that you need a few more RPMS, search for them in the previous list, as you did with the yum package. When you have installed all those packages that yum needs you will have to run:
rpm -Ugh yum-2.6.0-1.noarch.rpm
hope that helps :-)
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if they can load CentOS - it is considered by many to be much better...
Fedora is designed primarily as a test bed, it runs the latest software and has not gone through rigorous testing - that's what you are there for. Although I have heard it is stable and runs well.
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04-05-2008, 07:26 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Before you start going through the pain of installing the different RPMs that you find on the net, I suggest you to check your repository and at least install the yum package.
It's a great pain to find the RPMs manually, and the nightmare actually begins when you want to update these packages
With yum, upgrading is just a breeze
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04-05-2008, 11:55 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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I think the problem he is having is when he goes to install the YUM rpm it gives dependency errors. This is common on default VPS templates because they usually don't come with yum, however I would think most hosts would have this fixed. Like hostmedic said, just go to the Fedora FTP/HTTP mirror, download the yum and keep downloading the rpm's it says you need.
mkdir /usr/local/src/yum
cd /usr/local/src/yum
wget <RPM URL HERE>
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
And keep wgeting/rpming until you have all the dependencies resolved.
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04-06-2008, 05:44 AM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thank you everyone, the yum rpm (and its dependencies) on FC's website was what finally worked.
Your host should have the rpms with the dependencies involved
Try here: http://ayo.freshrpms.net/
Fedora btw is considered by many to be a beta OS...
With yum, upgrading is just a breeze