thuang2@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to RHEL. I run the command as follows:
> #yum install somepackage
> -bash: yum: command not found
>
> Do I need to install yum first? How can I do that? Thanks.

RHEL does not use yum, perhaps you thinking of Fedora Core or CentOS or one
of the other clones???

You can of course install it and use it to install third party packages like
those from Dag Wieers site or ATrpms. If this is what you want yum for then
visit and download/install yum.

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