-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Poe wrote: > Matt Morgan wrote: >> On 1/5/07, Tom Poe <tompoe@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I managed to panic, click and screw up yum directories. At this point, >>> I think I need to cleanly uninstall, and reinstall yum. Has anyone done >>> this on FC5? What are the steps? >>> Tom >> >> Do you mean you screwed up your repositories, or that you accidentally >> deleted files from some directory? What happens when you run >> >> yum update >> >> as root? >> >> Generally you can find very good advice about yum at fedorafaq.org. >> > # yum check-update > Setting up repositories > planetcore [1/4] > planetcore 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > livna [2/4] > livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > planetccrma [3/4] > planetccrma 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > planetextras [4/4] > planetextras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > Reading repository metadata in from local files > > It no longer has fedora repositories. That sounds like an en easy fix. Either download or find and reinstall from your FC-5 CD/DVD Fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm A link to a fast download site, for me, is http://tinyurl.com/y3tq4l It is a very small package. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFntegAO0wNI1X4QERAkGhAJsFSQ4XRoB48OI+yI5oIpfTV9bfqQCgmvAS 8k5hxKGHjCoELWqBzWw19r8= =7VoD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----