-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Poe wrote: > David Boles wrote: > Tom Poe wrote: > >>>> Frank sent his yum.repos.d fedora directories, and I've now successfully >>>> undone my idiocy for the moment. Thanks to all. >>>> > > > I saw your post IE my suggestion about the install. You did NOT > uninstall it > so rpm thought it was still there. The files that Frank sent you were > also in > the rpm. But his idea worked and you are back in business. > > You did this as root. Be more careful next time. ;-) > > Seriously. This is an example of why 'doing things as root' and > 'running a > root user' can be bad. Think twice. Click once. > > >> > Good point. To remove yum altogether, then reinstall? Would I go to > the install/remove software selection on the applications menu? > Tom I would NOT do this. Remove yum that is. I doubt that the 'install/remove software' feature would work after that. I have not tried this but it sounds like a bad thing to do. Yum is an application, actually made in several pieces, that helps you solve dependencies and find the needed packages. I would think, never have tried, that using the 'other option', update existing, from the DVD and not reinstall but update would have also fixed this. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFnz7OAO0wNI1X4QERAgSrAKCIli/hXzXEl06CHAbkYK7hxy5nQwCgqnyb ceL3zRDzD6S0N18vqs/CB80= =oeAN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----