On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 11:01 +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > I installed yum but running yup update, just sleeps t here, nothing happens > > # yum update > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base > > Nothing happens for several minutes after this and I have to press > Ctrl-C. yum --help also doesn't tell anything much or there is no > verbose option either. What should I do? > > I'm using a proxy, is that the problem? Where do I configure that? > /etc/yum.conf doesn't have any such mention It does once you've updated to yum 2.20 (see man yum.conf after updating). Try: # export http_proxy=http://my.proxy:port # yum update (obviously, substitute the name and port number of your proxy server for my.proxy:port) P.S. Please don't top-post on this mailing list. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
