I think I have found the simplest way to install yum on RHEL4 incase anyone needs help.
The website http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/ has most of the rpm's you will need.
Install the following files in this order: - there are x86_64 versions available as well
1) http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sqlite/sqlite-3.1.2-2.99_2.el4.at.i386.rpm 2) http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sqlite/sqlite-devel-3.1.2-2.99_2.el4.at.i386.rpm 3) http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/pythonabi/pythonabi-2.3-3.el4.at.i386.rpm 4) http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/python-sqlite/python-urlgrabber-2.9.9-1.99_5.... 5) http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/python-sqlite/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.0.99_4.... 6) http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/python-elementtree/python-elementtree-1.2.6-4...
Next you need to download yum from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.4/yum-2.4.3-1.src.rpm - save this file to disk, do not try to use the rpm installer because it is a src rpm.
Next cd to the directory where you saved the file and use the following commands to install yum. 1) rpmbuild --rebuild yum-2.4.3-1.src.rpm 2) cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch 3) rpm -i yum-2.4.3-1.noarch.rpm
There ya have it, yum should be installed and working. You can now run the install.sh script with no problems.
Found a much easier way using apt-get.
1) install apt-get, browse the directory for the correct version
# rpm -Uvh http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/apt-latest-version.el4.rf.i386.rpm
2) add the following line to to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/os.list
repomd http://dl.atrpms.net el4-i386/atrpms/stable
3) import the atrpms GPG key
# rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
4) update apt-get
# apt-get update
5) install yum
# apt-get install yum
you may want to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to upgrade all your rpms
Argh! Don't install apt-get! I just noticed that our package updates module stops working when you have apt-get installed on a system that normally uses up2date or yum for system updates (it's due to the way it auto-detects available sources). ;-)
apt-get for RPM is a dead project now, anyway, and probably isn't an ideal choice for any purpose.
I didn't think the current version of install.sh had the bug that triggered calling yum before it was actually available. But if it does, it's definitely fixed in the next release.
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