On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 02:12 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > My yum is now working fine as root. But I am wondering about the past. > I've been running my new installation for several weeks, and I've been > installing programs with yum as User instead of as Root. I'd be utterly amazed if yum didn't tell you that that hadn't worked when you tried it: $ yum install emacs You need to be root to perform this command. > How has this > past installation affected or will affect the current status of yum on > my computer? It's working fine, I've installed several more programs > (this time as root), but has my past mistake in any way corrupted or > messed up the yum database? If so, what would you recommend that I do? Tell us *exactly* how you were installing programs using yum as a regular user. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
