Can someone give me a really WORKING yum.conf?

[Stuart Sears]

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
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