STILL Unable to use YUM to update

[Spencer Kellis]

it's also easy to get a new yum.conf. you can download one from
http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/#installsoftware (I use this one and it does
pretty well).

that's just in case the yum.conf~ is corrupt as well.

good luck,
spencer

On 10/11/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>
> At 4:56 PM -0400 10/11/05, John Moore wrote:
> ...
> >The yum.conf exists BUT it is listed in the /etc directory as yum.conf~
> >(tilde). I tried (as described above) to rename it but it won't rename.
> >Can I change the permissions on this file (to what exactly and how) OR do
> >I delete the file? Some other option?
>
> That is, /etc/yum.conf does not exist, but there is a file named
> /etc/yum.conf~ that isn't being used by anything. Such files normally
> result from an editor renaming the original file as a backup when saving
> changes to a new origina file. If that backup file contains anything
> useful, you might try mv'ing or cp'ing it to /etc/yum.conf, as root. You
> can't do it as a normal user.
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