best way to add fedora directories to yum?

[David Boles]

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Tom Poe wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
> Tom Poe wrote:
>  
>>>> Frank sent his yum.repos.d fedora directories, and I've now successfully
>>>> undone my idiocy for the moment.  Thanks to all.
>>>>     
> 
> 
> I saw your post IE my suggestion about the install. You did NOT
> uninstall it
> so rpm thought it was still there. The files that Frank sent you were
> also in
> the rpm. But his idea worked and you are back in business.
> 
> You did this as root. Be more careful next time.  ;-)
> 
> Seriously. This is an example of why 'doing things as root' and
> 'running a
> root user' can be bad. Think twice. Click once.
> 
> 
>>

> Good point.  To remove yum altogether, then reinstall?  Would I go to
> the install/remove software selection on the applications menu?
> Tom


I would NOT do this. Remove yum that is. I doubt that the 'install/remove
software' feature would work after that. I have not tried this but it sounds
like a bad thing to do. Yum is an application, actually made in several
pieces, that helps you solve dependencies and find the needed packages. I
would think, never have tried, that using the 'other option', update existing,
from the DVD and not reinstall but update would have also fixed this.

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  David
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