you may be behind a proxy, if so, then type this before your yum command export http_proxy="http://proxy.addr.com:80"; or whatever the port is, instead of 80... also, remember that redhat's servers are pretty slammed, regularly... so it may just be really slow... substitute this server for the default redhat yum server: base: baseurl=http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/fedora-core/1/i386/os updates: baseurl=http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/fedora-core/updates/1/i386 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:21:17 -0600 To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: yum will not work! > Can someone tell me what I need to do to get yum working.The yum.conf > file looks like the following. > > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=fedora-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever > > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releaseve > r > > #[updates-testing] > #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates > #baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releaseve > r > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net she's crashing her car in an intersection she did not see the light she's walking round and round in a shopping mall as if she had no sight dreams are only clouds that form and dissipate the sky is a highway for metal birds and land is real estate she does not understand her world depends upon a history of lies she walks right by all her old high school friends for she has dollar signs in her eyes - the dead milkmen, "dollar signs in her eyes"
