On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 19:18 +0000, Laurence Orchard wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:16 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > > Laurence Orchard wrote: > > > Unfortunately that doesn't help much! > > > listed is my complete yum.conf, I do not have a yum.repos directory. > > > > The version of yum that ships with FC3 creates a /etc/yum.repos.d directory, > > as does the fedora-release package, which includes some files that are in that > > directory. Did you delete the directory? > > > > What's the output of: > > > > $ rpm -q yum fedora-release > > > > Paul. > > > > [laurence@athlon ~]$ rpm -q yum fedora-release > yum-2.1.11-3 > fedora-release-3-8 > > > yes I deleted /etc/yum.repos.d while trying to sort the problem > > Can you tell me the file contents? Easier just to reinstall them from your install media: # mv /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.save # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs yum-2.1.11-3.noarch.rpm fedora- release-3-8.i386.rpm Then add your favourite repos as separate files in /etc/yum.repos.d Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>