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I am trying to use SSH to update PHP and I'm getting the message "Yum not Detected."

Is "Yum" something I need to enable or install?

Following advice I got in a previous question, I typed this into SSH:

cat /etc/*-release

And it displayed this:

Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)

Should Yum work on my server? If yes, how can I get it to work?

Thanks in advance,

John

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Who did you piss off to get stuck maintaining a FC6 machine? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jan 13 '11 at 10:47
LOL... is it bad? I just bought it from Network Solutions. – John Jan 13 '11 at 10:51
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I just checked the Network Solutions Homepage. They have a money back guarantee for the first 30 days. Get your money back. Fedora Core 6 IS that bad because the operating system will celebrate its fifth birthday this year (current release is 14). Packages are quite outdated and you are stuck with no support. – pacey Jan 13 '11 at 12:50
I completely agree with pacey. FC6 has been officially unsupported since November 2007, they were downright negligent to hand it out. – Scott Pack Jan 26 '11 at 1:30
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Try rpm -q yum to discover if yum package is installed.

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thanks... when I did that it says "package yum is not installed"... is it possible for me to install it? – John Jan 13 '11 at 9:49
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Use this as a template

http://godaddyvds.wikispaces.com/installing+yum

That is for fedora 4.. So you just use that as a guide for which packages to install

For 6 it will be 

http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ for 32 bit
http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/core/6/x86_64/os/Fedora/RPMS/ for 64 bit

EDIT

Ok for example.. the first file is

python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm

So if its a 32 bit version.. I go to the 32bit URL and find the python-elementtree file which is 

http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm

Use that URL in place of the one in the example.

Hope it helps

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Thanks... so do I just look for the equivalents of the 6 URLs shown in the godaddyvds wiki and paste them all into SSH? – John Jan 13 '11 at 10:48
I made an edit on what to look for and replace it with – Mike Jan 13 '11 at 11:56
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