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Media Temple v2

I’m going to hold off from posting a review of Media Temple’s (dv) (VPS) plan for another date, probably after I’m completely happy with the setup and I have some more experience with how they handle support and uptime.

So far the support has been outstanding. Currently I’m on the base dedicated virtual plan that (mt) offers but without Plesk. This was a major requirement for me in moving to (mt). Thanks to their awesome support they provisioned my system fairly quickly, considering it’s out of the ordinary option for their plans.

Right now I’m learning from a mistake I made when I first setup the box. I should have not rushed off of Spry (even though they were breaking at the time) and instead took my time to upgrade to CentOS 5 because of some issues with the older release.

MediaTemple right now is shining, they’ve given me another (dv) to setup and upgrade “correctly” and then I’ll be able to cancel my current (dv) after I migrate over to the new one.

This time around I’ll hopefully documenting a lot more, so here come the CentOS how-tos for Media Temple dvs

Installing Yum on CentOS 4

I’m officially on mediatemple now and after getting my VPS or (dv) cleansed of plesk I noticed Yum was not installed. I’m planning on doing a full writeup after a few days but for now I’ll get this tutorial on how to install Yum on CentOS 4 out of the way.
First off you’ll need to install a key from the centos mirrors,

# rpm –import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4

Next let’s start installing yum,

# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libxml2-python is needed by yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch
python-elementtree is needed by yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch
python-sqlite is needed by yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch
rpm-python is needed by yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch
urlgrabber is needed by yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch

As you can tell there are a few dependencies that need to be installed first. If you’re going to copy and paste these commands be careful,

# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/libxml2-2.6.16-10.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.6.16-10.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/rpm-python-4.3.3-22_nonptl.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm

Wow that was a lot, now finally yum,

# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm

And you should now have yum installed and ready to run. I won’t tell you how to use yum but the first thing I did was run,

# yum update