yum not available [Re:Fedora core 4 and MySQL problem]

[Ugo Bellavance]

Leila Lappin wrote:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
> 
>>>>mysql server 4.1.11 is available in the standard
>>>>repository.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I did that but yum does not work on my setup, I
>>
>>get
>>
>>>yum command not found
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>[root at localhost ~]# yum -y install mysql-server
>>>bash: yum: command not found
>>>
>>>[/snip]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Do
>>
>>rpm -q yum
>>
>>If you get a 'not installed' message, type, as root
>>
>>rpm -i
>>
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm
> 
>>or download it (wget
>>
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm)
> 
>>and then install with rpm -i yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm
>>
>>Let me know how it goes.
>>
> 
> 
> Ugo thank you for all your help.  Unfortunately I was
> not able to either download or the rpm or install it. 
> I tried to use wget and download the rpm package first
> and then install.  I got the following error:
> 
> [snip] 
> [root at localhost myDownloads]# wget
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.3.2-7.noarch
> 

the URL is not complete.  You're missing .rpm at the end.

> --14:48:24-- 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.3.2-7.noarch
> 
>            => `yum-2.3.2-7.noarch' 
> Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com...
> 209.132.176.20, 209.132.176.220, 209.132.176.221, ... 
> Connecting to
> download.fedora.redhat.com[209.132.176.20]:80...
> connected. 
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 
> 14:48:25 ERROR 404: Not Found. 
> [/snip] 
>  
>  
> When I tried to install directly from the url then I
> got some error messages and it hung 
>  
> [snip] 
> [root at localhost myDownloads]# rpm -i
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.3.2-7.noarch
> 
> error: open of <!DOCTYPE failed: No such file or
> directory 
> error: open of HTML failed: No such file or directory 
> error: open of PUBLIC failed: No such file or
> directory 
> [/snip]