Yum and Git on Centros 4/4.5
Trying to install software on linux sometimes can be a real pain.
Sure yum is great but some hosts such as MediaTemple don’t have that installed.
So here’s a list of the commands I had to run in order to get Yum installed
on a Centros 4.* box in an attempt to install another program:
Everything for centros 4.* is located here now => http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/rpm-libs-4.3.3-32_nonptl.i386.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/rpm-4.3.3-32_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/popt-1.9.1-32_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/rpm-python-4.3.3-32_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/libxml2-2.6.16-12.6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.6.16-12.6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/rpm-python-4.3.3-32_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
After installing that amazing number of packages for yum. It turns out the program I wanted wasn’t even available from yum. So I looked elsewhere.
To install “Git” you can do the following:
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/git-core-1.5.4.7-3.el4.i386.rpm http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/perl-Git-1.5.4.7-3.el4.i386.rpm
Everything is downloaded from Fedora Redhat.
It runs ~/git woo. Now to see if I can use git to fetch my source/respository.
