Craig White wrote: >> OK, he has a lot of files in yum.repos.d . >> I believe you. >> >> However, it doesn't matter if he has a million files there. >> All that matters is how many are enabled (with "enabled=1"). >> As far as I can see, you never mentioned this rather important point. > ---- > #1, he has trouble editing these files. I find that difficult to believe. The OP seems to have written enough emails to fill a small library, so surely he has a good grasp of an editor. > #2, at least 47 out of the 54 files didn't belong there I agree with you. I would have deleted the lot, and got 2 kosher files, fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo. > #3, how would you know which fedora.repo/fedora.repo.rpmsaved would > ultimately point to the right repo and which didn't without examining > the contents of each of them...I thought I had a good strategy. Thanks > once again for the unknowledgeable suggestion from the cheap seats. Unknowledgeable? We cheap-seaters don't understand such long words. > Therefore, your supposition that he can't see localhost:631 is entirely > wrong. He can connect. Really? I must have missed that. You mean, he got the CUPS web-page on his machine? In that case he was 1mm from getting CUPS running. But I'll leave the field to you - you are evidently cut out as a teacher ...