missing yum

[Ted Potter]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 08:52 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Ted Potter wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:46 +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > 
> >>Ted Potter wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Greetings,
> >>>
> >>>I took the plunge and upgrade from RH9 to FC4. All seems well but I was
> >>>concerned that there were no updates indicated by up2date. 
> >>>
> >>>I tried this
> >>>
> >>># up2date
> >>>An error has occurred:
> >>>exceptions.ImportError
> >>>See /var/log/up2date for more information
> >>>
> >>>/var/log/up2date says this:
> >>>
> >>>[Mon Aug 15 12:36:19 2005] up2date   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line
> >>>1265, in ?
> >>>   sys.exit(main() or 0)
> >>>  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 328, in main
> >>>   sources = sourcesConfig.getSources()
> >>>  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 263, in
> >>>getSource                                                         s
> >>>   scfg = SourcesConfigFile(filename="/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources")
> >>>  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 42, in
> >>>__init__
> >>>   self.load()
> >>>  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 85, in
> >>>load
> >>>   self.parseRepomd(line)
> >>>  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 219, in
> >>>parseRepo                                                         md
> >>>   from repoBackends import yumBaseRepo
> >>>  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.py",
> >>>line 14, in                                                          ?
> >>>   import yum
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>>from poking around I can find no program called yum. from the fedora
> >>
> >>>website should I not
> >>>at least have a /etc/yum.conf file ?
> >>>
> >>>anyway any pointers or whatever to get me the ability to do updates
> >>>would be greatly
> >>>appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>PS FC4 seems to rock !
> >>>
> >>>Thank you.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>
> >>Hello Ted, look in the attached pdf file towards the end. Search for 
> >>'yum' (without the quotes). All the info you need to get up2date and 
> >>yum  working, Remember!!! you need to configure TWO files to get it 
> >>working correctly.
> >>
> >>HTH
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you Graeme this does help, however I have no yum.conf file or any
> > file by the name of yum. I do have an
> > 
> > /etc/yum.repos.d directory with:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root root 1123 Jun  3 11:12 fedora-devel.repo
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root root  312 Jun  3 11:12 fedora-extras-devel.repo
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root root  299 Jun  3 11:12 fedora-extras.repo
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root root  294 Jun  3 11:12 fedora.repo
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root root  330 Jun  3 11:12 fedora-updates.repo
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root root  337 Jun  3 11:12 fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root root  354 Jun 28 11:40 freshrpms.repo
> > 
> > in it.
> > 
> > perhaps I should search my install cd's and search for a yum rpm.... ??
> 
> Yes, you should.  It should have been installed by default.  The yum
> executable should be located in /usr/bin.

"roger that Houston. Will advise upon return from the dark side. Thanks
for the help and all the good wishes. Keep 'em coming."

:-)

Thanks to all !