Setting up Yum on FC2

[spry_dustin]

If you do not already have Yum installed on your FC2 VPS and wish to have it set up, this will describe the basic process.

For reference, Todd references our FC2 RPM repository and tamlyn shares his yum configuration in the thread Fedora Core 2 RPM repository

First, obtain yum at our FC2 RPM repository:

bash-2.05b# cd /tmp
bash-2.05b# wget ftp://66.249.6.114/linux/fedora/2/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm
--20:16:54--  ftp://66.249.6.114/linux/fedora/2/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm
           => `yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm'
Connecting to 66.249.6.114:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /linux/fedora/2/Fedora/RPMS ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm ... done.
Length: 135,634 (unauthoritative)

100%[================================================================================================>] 135,634       --.--K/s

20:16:54 (4.79 MB/s) - `yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm' saved [135,634]

Next, install the rpm:

bash-2.05b# rpm --install yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm
/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory
warning: yum-2.0.7-1.1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
bash-2.05b#

Edit /etc/yum.conf to your liking. I'm configuring this one with mirrors.kernel.org because we have great connectivity to their server. Tamlyn shows some additional sources in the post referenced above.

[main]
exclude=courier* apache* mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* spamassassin* kernel* exim*
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

Lastly, test to make sure it works, using yum list. It should download headers and then list the packages.

bash-2.05b# yum list
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
sharutils-0-4.2.1-18.1.FC 100% |=========================| 3.4 kB    00:00
tzdata-0-2005f-1.fc2.noar 100% |=========================|  29 kB    00:00
krb5-devel-0-1.3.6-4.i386 100% |=========================|  12 kB    00:00
telnet-1-0.17-28.FC2.1.i3 100% |=========================| 3.1 kB    00:00
util-linux-0-2.12-19.i386 100% |=========================|  17 kB    00:00

 -- snip --

Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4Suite                              i386   1.0-1.0.a3.1             base
Canna                               i386   3.7p1-6                  base
Canna-devel                         i386   3.7p1-6                  base
Canna-libs                          i386   3.7p1-6                  base
ElectricFence                       i386   2.2.2-17.1               base
FreeWnn                             i386   1.11-42.1                base
FreeWnn-common                      i386   1.11-42.1                base
FreeWnn-devel                       i386   1.11-42.1                base

-- snip --

[tobowers]

Do you have an RPM repository for Fedora Core 4 containing yum?