yum not installing in RHEL 4.

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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.

You got the source rpm.

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

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

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?

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:

Code:

./configure
make
make test
make install

Nothing works !