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ultrajohn
Asked: 2012-03-19 23:19:51 +0800 CST

Installing Yum in Fedora 12

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For some reason I do not know, several default packages in my Fedora 12 installation have gone missing, removed or uninstalled. Now, reinstalling fedora 12 is not a good idea in my current situation. Can someone guide on how can I install yum package using rpm? I mean, I can't find the repository for yum.

Thank you very much!

UPDATE:

An Hour Later, I have installed yum successfully but installing all the missing dependencies one by one! Thanks everyone!

yum installation

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You might be in for a ride, especially if you're missing dependencies. Here is a page where you can view mirrors of the RPM and its dependencies, and search for the dependencies you don't have, in case the following doesn't work. 

    rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/i386/os/Packages/yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch.rpm
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  2. As @qweet pointed this is not a trivial thing due to the large number of prerequisites for yum, most notably python packages. My strategy would be

    1. get the yum rpm (do not use source code) from a F12 repository (releases/12/Everything/i386/os/Packages/) and place in a fresh folder
2. try to install yum: rpm -Uvh ./yum.xxx.xxx.rpm
3. If dependencies have been deleted also then you will get plenty of complains
4. Download also one by one the dependencies
5. try #2 above again
6. repeat 4,5 until you have no errors!!

    Of course if you have a F12 disk things get even easier. Have fun

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