Configuring Yum (get the packgs thru net)

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Till the previous version i.e,FC4,yum,as a default setting,reffered to the local repo,i.e. the rpms on your disk. But,there is a little change in this as now,it tries to access the repos over internet as it is default,now. If you have network connection then follow this,else skip here

step 1 : download this package and this

step 2 : Now install/upgrade those rpms: rpm -ivh or rpm -Uvh yum *.rpm(–force,if it gives some errors of replacing files)

step 3 : Now,you need yum.conf file to be replaced by this

# This is the fedorafaq.org yum.conf for Fedora Core 5.
#
# Note that you also need the rest of the configuration
# as described at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf
[main]
proxy=http://192.168.36.204:8080
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=1
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
# Don’t check keys for localinstall
gpgcheck=0
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
# Changed this because some mirrors go down and then
# re-trying takes forever.
timeout=60

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

step 4 : Get this commands and run them

run these commands at the prompt

root@localhost#cp /etc/yum.conf{,.bak} //this is backing up the previous to yum.conf.bak

root@localhost#cp yum.conf /etc/yum.conf //copy the file obtained here to /etc/yum.conf

If you are NOT a IIITian,you need to change the proxy setting in this file, as well as in the previous commands to the respective one.

Now you have little hand-work to do,(if you dont have idea of sed or awk) i.e..remove all #’s before the baserepo’s in .repo files in /etc/yum.repo.d/ and ‘enable=0’s to ‘enable=1’s if you like to get some package from that repo thru yum.

Thats it !! A beautiful tool is up,so dat you dont need to go for recursive installations of dependencies of mplayer,videolan-client or what not ? Use it.

PS: A small advice

1 : disable the dries repo as it doesn’t seem to be working anymore or may be it is very busy!

2 : Usually the packages on atrpms,livna are contradicting..so its better to disable either of them.(this may not always be the case)

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