I set up a VPS (Virtual Private Server) with Net24 today with CentOS 5.0 i386 as the virtual server operating system. After logging in as root I discovered the operating system install was pretty minimal and didn’t include yum for package management, so I had to manually install yum with rpm.
I found a page about how to install yum with OpenVZ, and although Net24 use Virtuozzo and not OpenVZ, the instructions were what I needed to be able to install yum on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 using RPM.
I used the list of files to create a single command as shown below:
for file in
gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm
readline-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm
python-2.4.3-19.el5.i386.rpm
libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.i386.rpm
libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.i386.rpm
expat-1.95.8-8.2.1.i386.rpm
python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm
sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm
python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
elfutils-0.125-3.el5.i386.rpm
rpm-python-4.4.2-37.el5.i386.rpm
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.1.i386.rpm
python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2.noarch.rpm
yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2.noarch.rpm
do rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.0/os/i386/CentOS/$file;
done
The nice thing about doing it this way is that if you decided to use a local/faster mirror you only need to change the base site in one place (ie changing http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/ in the above to your mirror’s location of the CentOS files).
After installing yum you then need to run:
yum -y update
This will update the yum database and produce output along these lines:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 798 kB 00:06 base : ################################################## 2334/2334 Added 2334 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.51 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 323 kB 00:00 updates : ################################################## 731/731 Added 731 new packages, deleted 0 old in 4.01 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 157 B 00:00 Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.00 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 66 kB 00:00 extras : ################################################## 251/251 Added 251 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.89 seconds Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for kernel-headers to pack into transaction set. kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1 100% |=========================| 122 kB 00:00 ---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for tzdata to pack into transaction set. tzdata-2007h-1.el5.noarch 100% |=========================| 183 kB 00:00 ---> Package tzdata.noarch 0:2007h-1.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: kernel-headers i386 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 updates 728 k tzdata noarch 2007h-1.el5 updates 746 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 2 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 1.4 M Downloading Packages: (1/2): kernel-headers-2.6 100% |=========================| 728 kB 00:01 (2/2): tzdata-2007h-1.el5 100% |=========================| 746 kB 00:02 warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897 Importing GPG key 0xE8562897 "CentOS-5 Key (CentOS 5 Official Signing Key)
