Install yum on RHEL4 Submitted by eth00 on Sat, 2006-01-21 21:54. Virtual Private Servers (VPS) So why do you want to install yum on a rhel box if you already have up2date? Well there are a number of reasons, the main one and the reason I wrote this is that I was installing openvz and it needed yum installed. Trying to just use the yum rpm or source compiling was getting all sorts of python erro..