I was cleaning up my hard disk and came across a tar file I put together a while back when dealing with Virtuozzo containers needing Yum.
http://alouche.net/centos/yum-centos4-64.tar
The rpm files are for Centos 4.X 64 bits… anyone looking up for Centos 5.X, the libraries should be the same, so fetching the same rpm names (#arch #version) should be a piece of cake.
- untar
- rpm -ivh *
and voila!
Hope that helps!
Ali
As we all know RedHat 5.3 has been released yesterday (20th Jan 08)…
While the mainstream packages are being tossed together for the centos release, you may want to get further twitter updates through http://twitter.com/CentOS
Wondering what’s to be new in this new release, hitch down to the redhat official changelogs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 GA Announcement:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2009-January/msg00092.html
Kernel (2.6.18-128.el5) changelog:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html
Release notes:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Release_Notes/index.html
Press release:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/rhel_5_3.html
Package manifest (LOTS of errors in this doc):
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Release_Manifest/index.html
Ever had yum segfaulting…
If this is the case, what to do?
1.) yum clean metadata
2.) yum clean dbcache
3.) yum makecache
try again 
cheers,