Install Yum on Legacy Red Hat

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http://fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-rh8.php

yum (Yell dog Updater, Modified) is an automated package management program which may be used to install, remove, and update packages on an RPM based system. It will help you to keep your system up to date and is used by Fedora Core, the successor to Red Hat Linux. Unfortunately, it wasn't included in original release of Red Hat Linux 8, however, we have prepared a yum package for you to get the full yum functionality on your existing Red Hat Linux 8 system.

is a good thing!

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I couldn't get yum working because of some strange dependance failure. I got apt working thou.

http://freshrpms.net/apt/

APT (Advanced Package Tool) is a dependency tool, well known to Debian users since it is used by default with their dpkg packages. But apt has been ported to work with rpm packages too, by Conectiva, who has now used it for some time in their GNU/Linux distribution. The good news is that apt for rpm may be used with any other rpm-based distribution. All you need is the tool compiled for your version of rpm and at least a repository where rpm packages and their apt metadata can be downloaded from.

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Dependency problems.... Fedora/Red Hat? No way, man!

That's one of the reasons I made the move from Red Hat to Debian about four years ago... and haven't had nearly the problems since. To be fair though, Red Hat is probably the way to go for medium/large server deployments that have a standard software load.

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yea but this is RH 8.0

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apt 0.5.5cnc6 for linux i386 compiled on Jul 19 2003 21:23:24
Usage: apt-get [options] command
apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]

apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and
installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update
and install.

Commands:
update - Retrieve new lists of packages
upgrade - Perform an upgrade
install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.rpm)
remove - Remove packages
source - Download source archives
build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8)
clean - Erase downloaded archive files
autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies

Options:
-h This help text.
-q Loggable output - no progress indicator
-qq No output except for errors
-d Download only - do NOT install or unpack archives
-s No-act. Perform ordering simulation
-y Assume Yes to all queries and do not prompt
-f Attempt to continue if the integrity check fails
-m Attempt to continue if archives are unlocatable
-u Show a list of upgraded packages as well
-b Build the source package after fetching it
-D When removing packages, remove dependencies as possible
-c=? Read this configuration file
-o=? Set an arbitary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp
See the apt-get(8), sources.list(5) and apt.conf(5) manual
pages for more information and options.
This APT has Super Cow Powers.