best way to add fedora directories to yum?

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 22:56:33 UTC 2007


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Tom Poe wrote:
> Matt Morgan wrote:
>> On 1/5/07, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
>>> I managed to panic, click and screw up yum directories.  At this point,
>>> I think I need to cleanly uninstall, and reinstall yum.  Has anyone done
>>> this on FC5?  What are the steps?
>>> Tom
>>
>> Do you mean you screwed up your repositories, or that you accidentally
>> deleted files from some directory? What happens when you run
>>
>> yum update
>>
>> as root?
>>
>> Generally you can find very good advice about yum at fedorafaq.org.
>>
> # yum check-update
> Setting up repositories
> planetcore                                                           [1/4]
> planetcore                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> livna                                                                [2/4]
> livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> planetccrma                                                          [3/4]
> planetccrma               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> planetextras                                                         [4/4]
> planetextras              100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 
> It no longer has fedora repositories.

That sounds like an en easy fix. Either download or find and reinstall from
your FC-5 CD/DVD

Fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm

A link to a fast download site, for me, is http://tinyurl.com/y3tq4l

It is a very small package.
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  David
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