fixing yum
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Tue Mar 22 14:55:25 UTC 2005
Old Fart wrote:
| Claude Jones wrote:
|| Old Fart wrote:
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||| Claude Jones wrote:
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|||| I've read your posts, but I'm failing to understand a
|||| probably obvious thing. Can someone tell me how to fix yum.
|||| I've gotten past the fix gdm issue. I'm not understanding
|||| what is broken about yum. Do I need to download and install
|||| the laterst version from the development server? Or, is it
|||| something that's wrong with yum.conf file? Or, something
|||| else.
||||
||| Would you be referring to fedora-devel.repo in
||| /etc/yum.repos.d and adding the following line?
|||
||| gpgcheck=0?
|||
|| I turned that off in yum.conf to enable the update of yum.
|| Does turning that switch off permanently in the repos file
|| open any other cans of worms?
||
| Not that I know of. What kind of errors are you seeing? Any
| error messages?
If I do yum -y update, after some time, it runs a list of packages
to be updated, followed by a series of messages:
---> Processing Dependency: [name of package]
Followed by:
Error: Missing Dependency: [name of package}
There are about fifteen of those. Then I just revert to the
prompt.
Regards,
Claude (I bet I'm older than you...) Jones
Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
Leesburg, VA, USA
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