<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Paul Howarth wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1120461470.15736.168.camel@laurel.intra.city-fan.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 02:12 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Dear friends: My yum is now working fine as root. But I am wondering about the past. I've been running my new installation for several weeks, and I've been installing programs with yum as User instead of as Root. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I'd be utterly amazed if yum didn't tell you that that hadn't worked when you tried it: $ yum install emacs You need to be root to perform this command. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">How has this past installation affected or will affect the current status of yum on my computer? It's working fine, I've installed several more programs (this time as root), but has my past mistake in any way corrupted or messed up the yum database? If so, what would you recommend that I do? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Tell us *exactly* how you were installing programs using yum as a regular user. Paul. </pre> </blockquote> Dear Paul: I see your point. Obviously, I was INSTALLING programs only as Root. I apparently confused "installing" a program as root with my practice of having yum list programs, both "installed" and "available" as User. I was running the command "yum list available" and "yum list installed" as user. That's what temporarily messed up yum. Would doing this have any permanent effect on the yum database? Thank you. Benjamin </body> </html>