Network Solutions is our VPS provider. As is the box comes pre installed w/ FC6 w/ no package manager installed by default. Considering its 2010 this is absurd. This tutorial details installing Yum on FC6. If you have a choice I recommend you pick another VPS such as Linode or Slicehost, or install a newer version of Fedora. If you don’t, read on.
Use terminal or Putty to SSH in as root or to an account w/ admin privileges.
CD to your home folder: cd ~
Download all the required RPM’s: wget http://mdgrech.com/rpm-packages.tar.gz
Extract the contents: tar -zxvf rpm-packages.tar.gz
Now the time consuming part. Install the RPM’s. I didn’t take note of the order in which I installed the RPM’s so you will have to experiment here. I recommend going down the list installing alphabetically seeing as Yum should be the last package you install. Install the RPM’s w/ the following command:
rpm -ivh package-name
Almost done. Now we need to update the locations of the RPM repositories as Fedora is no longer providing support for this release. I found an awesome resource on the Fedora Forums detailing repo configuration for FC1 through F9. Follow the instructions for FC6 and you will finally have Yum installed on your box. Congratulations!
Install Yum on Fedora Core 6 Network Solutions
Network Solutions is our VPS provider. As is the box comes pre installed w/ FC6 w/ no package manager installed by default. Considering its 2010 this is absurd. This tutorial details installing Yum on FC6. If you have a choice I recommend you pick another VPS such as Linode or Slicehost, or install a newer version of Fedora. If you don’t, read on.
Use terminal or Putty to SSH in as root or to an account w/ admin privileges.
CD to your home folder:
cd ~Download all the required RPM’s:
wget http://mdgrech.com/rpm-packages.tar.gzExtract the contents:
tar -zxvf rpm-packages.tar.gzNow the time consuming part. Install the RPM’s. I didn’t take note of the order in which I installed the RPM’s so you will have to experiment here. I recommend going down the list installing alphabetically seeing as Yum should be the last package you install. Install the RPM’s w/ the following command:
rpm -ivh package-name
Almost done. Now we need to update the locations of the RPM repositories as Fedora is no longer providing support for this release. I found an awesome resource on the Fedora Forums detailing repo configuration for FC1 through F9. Follow the instructions for FC6 and you will finally have Yum installed on your box. Congratulations!