Comments on: how to install yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

By: Greymeister

Greymeister — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:57:42 +0000

Thanks a ton, this worked great for me on RHEL4 AS

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:57:59 +0000

Thank you!! very helpful

By: Chayan

Chayan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:36:16 +0000

Thanks a lot ! Worked like a charm

By: Buddhika

Buddhika — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:06:41 +0000

Thanxxx a lot.. Its really helpfull..

By: Ahamed Bauanih

Ahamed Bauanih — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:14:49 +0000

Thank You for your nice & helpful article.

By: Sanjeev

Sanjeev — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:19:01 +0000

Very clear and consise instructructions. You saved my day.

By: Abdo AL-Mjed

Abdo AL-Mjed — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:09:10 +0000

[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

By: nomad

nomad — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:07:35 +0000

Thank you very much.

By: Linh Nguyen

Linh Nguyen — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:57:11 +0000

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

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:31:57 +0000

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