yum not installing in RHEL 4.

[bhunnu16]

Hi! I am trying to install yum on my RHEL 4 . But when I clicked the rpm it flashed an error 'Source Package not supported'. When I extracted & compiled ,it showed the install bar. But when I executed the commnad yum. It says yum package not available. Kindly help me as I am not able to get the yum work on RHEL.
Also the rpm packages are not installing with Software installer.

[mehulved]

You got the source rpm.

[mediator]

AFAIR, u have "up2date" and not "yum" in RHEL. Try up2date!!

[mehulved]

I've got yum in CentOS 5. So, RHEL 5 should have yum too, dunno about RHEL4.

[mrbgupta]

can anyone tell me how to install applications in .tar.gz format in RHEL 5 ?
Suppose to install firefox 2.0.0.14 . A step by step will be very useful for a linux learner.

One more thing , is there applications like yahoo messenger and skype for voip and video conference.
Downloaded skype but it says lot of dependency problem . installed few rpm to solve but still same message. any reliable source there to install all the components necessary automatically online?

[QwertyManiac]

Yes, use Yum in your RHEL 5.

yum install pidgin # Installs Yahoo/GTalk/AIM/Etc.. Messenger
yum install skype # Repo dependent I suppose, might work

For .tar.gz, unpack the contents and run the program if its a binary package, else do these three commands in the extracted folder:

./configure
make
make test
make install

[mrbgupta]

Nothing works !