What is Yum?
” Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.
Features include:
* Multiple Repositories
* Simple config file
* Correct dependency calculation
* Fast operation
* rpm-consistent behavior
* comps.xml group support, including multiple repository groups
* Simple interface”
1. Installation
The best part of this howto is you have to just install …
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Install Yum package on centos 5 and centos 4 servers
rpm is not signed while using yum, fix for rpm is not signed
open the file repository file
/etc/yum.repos.d/example.repo or you can turn it off globally for all the repositories by editing yum.conf also.
and turn the gpgcheck=1 to gpgcheck=0 , restart yum
and try installing the package once again using yum and it should work now.
Install yum on cent os servers. packages needed for yum installation, working yum
The following method can be used to install YUM in your CENTOS servers
The best part of this is you have to just install the necessary softwares and everything will be ready after install. The following packages will be needed to install YUM software successfully.
* yum
* python-elementtree
* python-iniparse
* python-sqlite
* rpm-python
* python-urlgrabber
* yum-metadata-parser
* m2crypto
It may be possible that some of the above software are already installed and may be some more depended software needed. For more software you just have to add …
fix for ‘Missing Dependency : libttf.so.2 is needed by package Nagios’
 If you involve with the following errors. here is the fix for it.
” Missing Dependency : libttf.so.2 is needed by package Nagios”
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B
#Â Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / i386:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / x86_64:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / i386:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / x86_64:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 / i386:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 / x86_64:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el3.rf.x86_64.rpm
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux …
