If you have ever been in the situation where you had to install packages on serveral CentoOS 5.4 machines without having yum pre-installed and not having a local rpm source available you know it is a lot of work to download all depency packages by hand. I created a simple bash-script to download the necessary packages to install yum by hand. Create a new file for example
yuminstaller.sh with the content:
#!/bin/bash
# Install yum from the net
for file in \
elfutils-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm \
elfutils-libs-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm \
elfutils-libelf-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpm \
expat-1.95.8-8.2.1.x86_64.rpm \
gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.x86_64.rpm \
libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.x86_64.rpm \
libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.x86_64.rpm \
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.x86_64.rpm \
popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm \
python-2.4.3-27.el5.x86_64.rpm \
python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.x86_64.rpm \
python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm \
python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm \
python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm \
readline-5.1-3.el5.x86_64.rpm \
rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm \
rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm \
rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64.rpm \
sqlite-3.3.6-5.x86_64.rpm \
yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm \
yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm \
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm
do wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.4/os/x86_64/CentOS/$file; done
rpm -Uvh *rpm
and make it executable
chmod 755 yuminstaller.sh and run it.
