Installing Yum

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 29 10:43:17 UTC 2005


Jimmy Barnett Jr wrote:
> ok as a Newbie to linux I have heard alot about yum and updates. I have
> it downloaded and sitting on my desktop. where do I need to move it too?
> and how do I go about getting it installed and running? thanks in
> advance...

You shouldn't need to install it; it's installed by default in Fedora.

Try (as root):
# yum update

If that doesn't work, please state what you have downloaded, the version 
of Fedora you are using, and what the output of the command "rpm -q yum" is.

Paul.




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