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The scripts shown below scripts installs install all the packages upon which yum depends for a 386 distro (Need separate 64 bit instructions)

== CentOS 4 i386 ==rpm -Uvh <pre>PREFIX=http://mirrorvault.centos.org/centos-4/4.9/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSmkdir tempcd tempwget $PREFIX/gmp-4.1.4-3.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/readline-4.3-13.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/python-2.3.4-14.47.el4.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/libxml2-2.6.16-1012.6.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/libxml2-python-2.6.16-1012.6.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/expat-1.95.7-4.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/elfutils-libelf-0.97.1-5.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/elfutils-0.97.1-5.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/rpm-4.3.3-23_nonptl32_nonptl.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/rpm-python-4.3.3-23_nonptl32_nonptl.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/CentOS/4.6/os/s390/CentOS/RPMS#wget $PREFIX/centos-yumconf-4-4.5.noarch.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMSwget $PREFIX/yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch.rpm<br>rpm -Uhv *.rpmyum -y update<br/pre>

Note: CentOS 4 i386 updated 4 Apr 2012 == CentOS 5 4 X86_64 ==<pre>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/gmp-4.1.4-103.el5.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/readline-54.13-113.1.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/python-2.3.4-14.3-217.el5el4.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/libxml2-2.6.2616-212.1.2.1.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.6.2616-212.1.2.1.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/expat-1.95.87-84.2.1.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386el4.centos.x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/elfutils-libelf-0.12597.1-35.el5.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/rpmRPMS/elfutils-python-40.497.21-485.el5.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/m2cryptoRPMS/rpm-04.3.163-626_nonptl.el5.2.i386x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/rpm-python-urlgrabber-4.3.1.03-226_nonptl.noarchx86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/54/os/i386x86_64/CentOS/yumRPMS/python-metadataurlgrabber-parser-12.19.28-2.el5.i386noarch.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh httpftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/centos-5/54.8/os/i386alpha/CentOS/yumRPMS/centos-yumconf-4-34.25.8-9noarch.el5rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.noarch0-8.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm<br>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/yum -y update<br>2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch.rpmyum -y update<br/pre> Note: Updated CentOS 4 X86_64 updated 20 September 2010 == CentOS 5 i386 =='''wget''' can be installed first if not available: rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.10/os/i386/CentOS/wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.2.i386.rpm <pre> mkdir tmp.$$cd tmp.$$ rpm --replacepkgs -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/expat-1.95.8 July 2008-11.el5_8.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-9.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.3.i386.rpm rpm --force --replacepkgs -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/nss-3.16.1-2.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/nspr-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/popt-1.10.2.3-34.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/logrotate-3.7.4-14.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/rpm-4.4.2.3-34.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-34.el5.i386.rpm rpm --replacepkgs -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/elfutils-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/elfutils-libelf-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/elfutils-libs-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm rpm --replacepkgs -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-2.4.3-56.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.2.3-6.el5.noarch.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-libs-2.4.3-56.el5.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-6.el5.noarch.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.3.i386.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2.3-34.el5.i386.rpm rpm --replacepkgs -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-40.el5.centos.noarch.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-21.el5.centos.noarch.rpm \ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-4.el5.i386.rpm rpm -Uhv *.rpmyum -y update </pre> * Updated 2016-02-13 by bglopez // Commands *required* the `--replacepkgs` for all and `--force` for nss, etc. Otherwise it would fail with dependency issues at the YUM RPMs* Hint: If it doesn't work later on, look for updated packages in http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/* libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.3.i386.rpm is optional and yum worked without it* yum-utils may also be added if needed == CentOS 5 x86_64 ==<pre>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.12.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.12.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_5.3.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/elfutils-libelf-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/elfutils-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2.3-22.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-8.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-6.el5.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-16.el5.centos.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-37.el5.centos.noarch.rpmyum -y update</pre>Note: Updated 21 October 2011 By Sustrai <pre>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-2.4.3-56.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.15.el5_8.6.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.15.el5_8.6.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/expat-1.95.8-11.el5_8.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-6.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/elfutils-libelf-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/elfutils-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-9.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-6.el5.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-4.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.2.3-6.el5.noarch.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-21.el5.centos.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-40.el5.centos.noarch.rpmyum -y update</pre>Note: Updated 27 February 2013 by Andi Licious  2016-06-09 by Lukasz Lysik <pre>rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-2.4.3-56.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.21.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/expat-1.95.8-11.el5_8.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-7.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/elfutils-libelf-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/elfutils-0.137-3.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-4.4.2.3-34.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2.3-34.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-9.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-6.el5.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-4.el5.x86_64.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.2.3-6.el5.noarch.rpmrpm --nodeps -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-21.el5.centos.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-40.el5.centos.noarch.rpmyum -y update</pre> == CentOS 6.0 == === i386 === rpm -Uhv http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/6/os/i386/Packages/{gpgme-1.1.8-3.el6.i686,nss_compat_ossl-0.9.6-1.el6.i686,pygpgme-0.1-18.20090824bzr68.el6.i686,python-iniparse-0.3.1-2.1.el6.noarch,python-pycurl-7.19.0-8.el6.i686,python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-9.el6.noarch,rpm-python-4.8.0-47.el6.i686,yum-3.2.29-69.el6.centos.noarch,yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-16.el6.i686,yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-30.el6.noarch}.rpm === x86_64 === rpm -Uhv http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/{gpgme-1.1.8-3.el6.x86_64,nss_compat_ossl-0.9.6-1.el6.x86_64,pygpgme-0.1-18.20090824bzr68.el6.x86_64,python-iniparse-0.3.1-2.1.el6.noarch,python-pycurl-7.19.0-8.el6.x86_64,python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-8.el6.noarch,rpm-python-4.8.0-32.el6.x86_64,yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch,yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-16.el6.x86_64,yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch}.rpm