Can someone give me a really WORKING yum.conf?

[Deboo ^]

On 5/10/07, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> Deboo ^ wrote:
> > It's been since FC2 that I have tried to use yum but always failed
> > whatever and however many replies I have got from this list and tried
> > all.
>
> 1. humour me and define "doesn't work."
> I haven't followed the previous threads on this.

Doesn't work means no output, no errors.


>From one of my 2005 posts which got more than 20 replies and quiet a
few such threads:

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I installed yum but running yup update, just sleeps there, nothing happens

# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base

Nothing happens for several minutes after this and I have to press
Ctrl-C. yum --help also doesn't tell anything much or there is no
verbose option either. What should I do?

I'm using a proxy, is that the problem? Where do I configure that?
/etc/yum.conf doesn't have any such mention
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The problem is no more the proxy. The proxy used authentication and I
was never able to authenticate using the console. Even perl wasn' able
to download thru CPAN for this same reason.

But now I have a direct connection and still I get no output running yum update.


> 2. which fedora version are you running now?
> FC6?

FC5 now.

> 3. have you installed the fedora-release rpm?
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm

> or because that will wrap in email, this is the same...
> http://tinyurl.com/ytws2w

This one didn't work ( didn't work here means the browser displayed a
page not found error)

> you may have to force (rpm -ivh --force) install it (it replaces files
> belonging to a different package), but it puts the core + extras repos
> back to their original "correct" state.

Thanks for explaining this and this url. I did not know about this
neither anyone in previous threads told me. Hope this will make yum
work.

> if I were you I would then run
>
> yum clean metadata (or even yum clean all)
> and
> yum list available
> and see if things work.

Thanks again. WIll get back after running these. Am not at the FC5
puter right now.


> --
> Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX LP DAT PDQ SCART STFU

Can you tell me if RedHat cert is bette ror LPI? Tho one is practical
and other just theory. Can you detail a bit on RHCE/RHCA? I understand
that book reading is of no help in RH certs since it's a hands on one.


Thanks and Regards,
Deboo

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