On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:51:38 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>Back in my Ubuntu days it was simple. All I had to do was open Synaptic >and click on Reload. But now that I'm on Fedora 14 I have to use yum, >and yum is a fickle lady. > >Specifically, I'm trying to enable a repo, "updates-testing." I just >want to enable it temporarily to grab a package that will take Fedora >who knows how long to get to the regular updates repo. According to man >yum the command should be "yum --enablerepo=updates-testing." But when >I try that yum just dumps the contents of yum --help. It would be nice >if it would give me at list a hint of what I did wrong. > >So after I failed at the command line I tried Yumex. I checked the box >for updates-testing, but couldn't find any button to refresh the >package list. So I shut down Yumex and reloaded it, and when I looked >at the repo list updates-testing was unchecked again. Dammit, I checked >that box to enable that repo and I meant it. > >Any suggestions? Never mind. I didn't realize that I was supposed to add "install <packagename>" at the end of the line. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
