Installing YUM onto your VPS Linux Server

In order to use the "Yellow dog Updater Modified" (YUM) application to install software onto your VPS, you'll first need to configure this software. This guide will assist you in the setup and configuration of the YUM installer.

Actions:
1. Download the following packages (using wget or similar) from the CentOS mirror into a directory of your choice (eg ~/downloads) from http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/CentOS/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/

• http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/CentOS/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.1.noarch.rpm
• http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/CentOS/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.x86_64.rpm
• http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/CentOS/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
• http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/CentOS/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2.noarch.rpm
• http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/CentOS/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-2.x86_64.rpm

2. Once you have downloaded these files, execute the command:

<em>rpm -ivh ~/downloads/*rpm</em>
   

You should see an output similar to:

<em>[root@myvps ~]# rpm -ivh ~/downloads/*rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
  1:sqlite                 ########################################### [ 20%]
  2:python-sqlite          ########################################### [ 40%]
  3:python-urlgrabber      ########################################### [ 60%]
  4:python-elementtree     ########################################### [ 80%]
  5:yum                    ########################################### [100%]</em>
   

You can now start to use YUM to manage software on your server.

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