Deboo ^ wrote: > It's been since FC2 that I have tried to use yum but always failed > whatever and however many replies I have got from this list and tried > all. 1. humour me and define "doesn't work." I haven't followed the previous threads on this. 2. which fedora version are you running now? FC6? 3. have you installed the fedora-release rpm? http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm or because that will wrap in email, this is the same... http://tinyurl.com/ytws2w you may have to force (rpm -ivh --force) install it (it replaces files belonging to a different package), but it puts the core + extras repos back to their original "correct" state. if I were you I would then run yum clean metadata (or even yum clean all) and yum list available and see if things work. > Like just installing apt on debian and using apt-get update and in a > split second, it connects and gets updates from servers and there's a > lit of updates on the screen getting downloaded and in a few minutes > you can apt-get install anything. and with the right repositories configured, you should be able to yum install nearly anything. Although it will be slower than apt-get. regards Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX LP DAT PDQ SCART STFU
