Installing YUM on CentOS 4 x86_64 (64-bit)

For 32-bit OS click here

On this page I've got everything to get working wget and install yum on a CentOS machine.

Usually CentOS comes with wget and yum, but if you choose to use a minimal installation (for example, on a VPS), then you may find out that there is no yum and no wget.

This page contains everything you need to set up wget and yum including all dependancy packages.

Let's install wget first

Log in into your server as root and type this: 

rpm -Uvh http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/wget-1.10.2-0.40E.x86_64.rpm

Install yum from rpm packages

cd ~
mkdir yum-install
cd yum-install
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/centos-yumconf-4-4.5.noarch.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/elfutils-0.97.1-5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/elfutils-libelf-0.97.1-5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/expat-1.95.7-4.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/gmp-4.1.4-3.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/libxml2-python-2.6.16-12.6.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/python-2.3.4-14.7.el4.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/readline-4.3-13.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/rpm-4.3.3-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/rpm-python-4.3.3-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/sqlite-3.3.6-2.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/popt-1.9.1-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/rpm-libs-4.3.3-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm

rpm -Uvh *

The output will be something similar to this: 

[root@server yum-install]# rpm -Uvh *
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:elfutils-libelf        ########################################### [  5%]
   2:popt                   ########################################### [ 11%]
   3:readline               ########################################### [ 16%]
   4:sqlite                 ########################################### [ 21%]
   5:libxml2                ########################################### [ 26%]
   6:yum-metadata-parser    ########################################### [ 32%]
   7:python-sqlite          ########################################### [ 37%]
   8:elfutils               ########################################### [ 42%]
   9:gmp                    ########################################### [ 47%]
  10:python                 ########################################### [ 53%]
  11:libxml2-python         ########################################### [ 58%]
  12:python-urlgrabber      ########################################### [ 63%]
  13:expat                  ########################################### [ 68%]
  14:python-elementtree     ########################################### [ 74%]
  15:centos-yumconf         ########################################### [ 79%]
  16:rpm-libs               ########################################### [ 84%]
  17:rpm                    ########################################### [ 89%]
  18:rpm-python             ########################################### [ 95%]
  19:yum                    ########################################### [100%]
[root@server yum-install]#

Update repository info

Since February 2012, Centos 4 is no longer supported and was removed from official centos mirrirs. To be able to use yum, you will also need to switch to the vault repository: 
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
mv CentOS-Base.repo "CentOS-Base.repo.bak-`date +%s`"
wget http://www.eomy.net/linux/CentOS4-Base-vault.repo
mv CentOS4-Base-vault.repo CentOS-Base.repo

yum clean all
yum makecache

Update installed packages

It will be a wise idea to update all packages installed in the system: 
yum update


      Name                                                                   Last modified      Size  Description
      Parent Directory                                                                            -   
      HEADER.html                                                            30-Mar-2012 07:49  4.5K  
      README.html                                                            26-Aug-2007 15:20   53   
      centos-yumconf-4-4.5.noarch.rpm                                        09-Sep-2009 22:44  3.6K  
      elfutils-0.97.1-5.x86_64.rpm                                           09-Sep-2009 22:44  145K  
      elfutils-libelf-0.97.1-5.x86_64.rpm                                    09-Sep-2009 22:44   38K  
      expat-1.95.7-4.x86_64.rpm                                              09-Sep-2009 22:44   72K  
      gmp-4.1.4-3.x86_64.rpm                                                 09-Sep-2009 22:44  180K  
      libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.x86_64.rpm                                         09-Sep-2009 22:44  653K  
      libxml2-python-2.6.16-12.6.x86_64.rpm                                  09-Sep-2009 22:45  470K  
      popt-1.9.1-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm                                        09-Sep-2009 22:54   65K  
      python-2.3.4-14.7.el4.x86_64.rpm                                       09-Sep-2009 22:47  5.0M  
      python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm                       09-Sep-2009 22:47   91K  
      python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm                                   09-Sep-2009 22:47   39K  
      python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm                                   09-Sep-2009 22:47  118K  
      readline-4.3-13.x86_64.rpm                                             09-Sep-2009 22:47  188K  
      rpm-4.3.3-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm                                         09-Sep-2009 22:47  662K  
      rpm-libs-4.3.3-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm                                    23-Jul-2009 01:29  828K  
      rpm-python-4.3.3-32_nonptl.x86_64.rpm                                  09-Sep-2009 22:47   92K  
      sqlite-3.3.6-2.x86_64.rpm                                              09-Sep-2009 22:47  201K  
      wget-1.10.2-0.40E.x86_64.rpm                                           09-Sep-2009 22:36  576K  
      yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch.rpm                                      09-Sep-2009 22:48  386K  
      yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm                        09-Sep-2009 22:48   24K
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