I am a newbie in Linux. I cann't get yum working. When I issue the "yum check-update" command or "yum update" command I get the following text:
[peter@localhost peter]$ yum check-update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 163, in main (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args) File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 75, in parseCmdArgs conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile) File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 48, in __init__ self.cfg.read(configfile) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ConfigParser.py", line 263, in read self._read(fp, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ConfigParser.py", line 456, in _read raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, `line`) ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers. file: /etc/yum.conf, line: 1 '\xef\xbb\xbf[main]\n' [peter@localhost peter]$
It doesn't look good to me. Can anyone help me out? The content of /yum/conf:
[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20
[base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
[updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#[updates-testing] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/
#[development] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
Peter Lesterhuis.
