This case applies to most Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, from i386 to i686 machines, i’ve successfully used it on our Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6):
To use it for other systems / architectures, check the packages given at (check).

1. Get the main packages

(check) http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/

$wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/
search.php?query=libsqlite.so.0&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/PLD/dists/ac/ready/i386/libsqlite-2.8.15-1.i386.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/
search.php?query=python-elementtree&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/
search.php?query=python-sqlite&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/python-sqlite-0.5.0-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

(check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/
search.php?query=urlgrabber&submit=Search+…&system=&arch=

$wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.7-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

2. Install Rpm’s

$rpm -ivh libsqlite-2.8.15-1.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh python-sqlite-0.5.0-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh python-urlgrabber-2.9.7-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
$rpm -ivh yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

3. Setup the Repository
(check) http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/

$wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
$rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

4. Yum update all packages

$yum update
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45 Responses

  1. Anoop Prasad Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    Very good and self-descriptive article for experienced as well as new Linux users.

  2. zeebie Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    u r awesome

  3. egwell emiru david Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    thank you really descriptive article.
    good work.

  4. Drew McLellan Says:
    October 14th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Brilliant – thanks.

  5. Sujit Says:
    January 21st, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    Brilliant!!!

  6. enginekeg Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    i am new and this worked perfectly – thanks!

  7. Dax Abraham Says:
    February 14th, 2009 at 1:17 am

    Excellent post !!!

  8. Mark Stevens Says:
    February 15th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    I was having problems obtaining the correct set of dependencies for the yum rpm even with a Redhat Subscription!, following your post was seamless and worked perfectly with rh4 vm appliance shipped from Redhat.

    10 out of 10!

  9. Pramod Reddy Patlolla Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 2:35 am

    Awesome!

  10. liam Says:
    February 28th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    most excellent!

  11. Gadjo Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Great Article! Thanks!

  12. softrocker Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    on running yum update i get the following error:
    Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: sagator
    no more mirrors to try
    error 404: not found

  13. vijay Says:
    April 7th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Hey, I have done everthing. but didn’t worked .. all the 5 packages were installed. yum: command not found.

  14. queenGoxy Says:
    May 7th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    web2:~ # rpm -ivh python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm
    warning: python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
    error: Failed dependencies:
    libexpat.so.0 is needed by python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386

    i don’t know where to find this package, i’ve tried everything..

  15. khalifah Says:
    May 26th, 2009 at 3:31 am

    thanks a lot guy…

    I’m a new member of your site….

    please tech me….

  16. MSD Says:
    May 28th, 2009 at 8:41 am

    Very good assistance with this..

  17. NewtoLinux Says:
    May 28th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    thnx a lot dude…
    it worked fine with me…
    vijay, create a blank file /etc/yum.conf.
    and it should work.

  18. Kamal Says:
    June 22nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    I got an error:

    [root@Chicago yum]# yum update
    There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
    required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

    No module named yum

    Please install a package which provides this module, or
    verify that the module is installed correctly.

    It’s possible that the above module doesn’t match the
    current version of Python, which is:
    2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
    [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)]

    If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
    the yum faq at:
    http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

    [root@Chicago yum]# yum install wireshark
    There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
    required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

    No module named yum

    Please install a package which provides this module, or
    verify that the module is installed correctly.

    It’s possible that the above module doesn’t match the
    current version of Python, which is:
    2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
    [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)]

    If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
    the yum faq at:
    http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

    [root@Chicago yum]#

  19. com4host Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 am

    yum updateroot@server [/]# yum update
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 4, in ?
    import yum
    File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 36, in ?
    import config
    File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py”, line 23, in ?
    from parser import ConfigPreProcessor
    File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py”, line 3, in ?
    import urlgrabber
    File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/__init__.py”, line 53, in ?
    from grabber import urlgrab, urlopen, urlread
    File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py”, line 406, in ?
    import keepalive
    File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/keepalive.py”, line 339, in ?
    class HTTPSHandler(KeepAliveHandler, urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
    AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘HTTPSHandler’

  20. Ashik Uzzaman Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    Thanks for the excellent instruction set. When I ran the last command “yum update”, it failed at the very end with the following error –
    Error: Missing Dependency: nmap = 2:4.20 for package: nmap-frontend

    I guess I have to download that package. I tried searching in google but confused about the version to download as none of those I find are 2:4.20 . Where can I get the exact command to download that?

  21. Thomas Hallock Says:
    August 6th, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    Thank you for the straight-forward and helpful instructions for this debian tourist :)

  22. Manoj Prasanna Says:
    August 15th, 2009 at 11:46 am

    thanx frnd.this is very helpful.

  23. ken Feng Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    Please help to fix yum update error:
    Error: Missing Dependency: nmap = 2:4.20 for package: nmap-frontend

  24. mjetuljcek Says:
    October 21st, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    realy nice “know how” instructions…
    THX

  25. com4host.com Says:
    October 22nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    hi
    i have error
    # yum update
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 28, in ?
    import yummain
    ImportError: No module named yummain

  26. felix Says:
    November 1st, 2009 at 10:48 pm

    i found a solution to the yum issue…

    The link is :

    http://fir3net.com/UNIX-/-Linux/Redhat-/-Fedora/yum-update-shows-module-object-has-no-attribute-httpshandler-error.html

  27. Sreekanth Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    Very good briefing on how to get yum for RHEL ES 4. Thanks. Worked for me :)

  28. yasusu Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 5:25 am

    I got a good information!
    Very Thanks.(from Japan)

  29. Tuo Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 4:09 am

    Terrific! Thanks a lot.

  30. Russell Nawaz Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 11:05 am

    Thanks wont be enough to you.

  31. Fernando Says:
    December 12th, 2009 at 12:01 am

    Perfect! Thak you! Congratulation!

  32. Dhananjay Says:
    January 20th, 2010 at 7:28 am

    gr8 article dear :)

  33. Penesaurio Says:
    February 2nd, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    You rock :D thx a lot!!

  34. Mad Says:
    February 5th, 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Thank you! great article!

  35. Diego Leon Says:
    February 25th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    Excellent friend!!! It’s like reading an ABC book ;-)

  36. Dan Says:
    March 1st, 2010 at 11:23 am

    Excellent, everything works smoothly! Thank you very much.

  37. Dan Says:
    March 1st, 2010 at 11:31 am

    Just want to add if the repository doesn work you can add the following:

    [main]
    cachedir=/var/cache/yum
    debuglevel=2
    logfile=/var/log/yum.log
    pkgpolicy=newest
    distroverpkg=redhat-release
    tolerant=1
    exactarch=1

    [base]
    name=CentOS-$releasever – Base
    baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/
    gpgcheck=1

    [updates]
    name=Red Hat Linux $releasever – Updates
    baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/
    gpgcheck=1

  38. Linh Nguyen Says:
    April 4th, 2010 at 9:57 pm

    Thank you. This tutorial is very helpful for newbies like me

  39. nomad Says:
    April 28th, 2010 at 7:07 am

    Thank you very much.

  40. Abdo AL-Mjed Says:
    May 2nd, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    [root@localhost root]# yum update
    There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
    required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

    No module named yum

    Please install a package which provides this module, or
    verify that the module is installed correctly.

    It’s possible that the above module doesn’t match the
    current version of Python, which is:
    2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
    [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)]

    If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
    the yum faq at:
    http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

  41. Sanjeev Says:
    May 2nd, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    Very clear and consise instructructions. You saved my day.

  42. Ahamed Bauanih Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Thank You for your nice & helpful article.

  43. Buddhika Says:
    June 10th, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Thanxxx a lot.. Its really helpfull..

  44. Chayan Says:
    July 15th, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    Thanks a lot ! Worked like a charm

  45. Mohamed Says:
    July 21st, 2010 at 11:57 am

    Thank you!! very helpful

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