missing yum

Graeme Nichols gnichols at tpg.com.au
Wed Aug 17 02:46:40 UTC 2005


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.... ??
>
>Thank you.
>
>Ted
>
>  
>
Hello Ted, it is on CD 1. 

/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm

HTH

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Graeme.
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