Hi Saifi , Yum has quite a few online repos.. popular ones are Fresh RPMs and Dries you can install Fresh RPMs with this command rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpmAnother popular Yum repo is Dries
Manually edit the yum config file and add the below lines //this creates a new file for the dries repo vi /etc/yum.repo.d/dries.repo paste the below config in the file and save [dries] name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1//do not forget to press an enter key after the last line Import the keys for both the repos rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/dries/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt There is a GUI version called Yumex ..which is pretty neat.. also do not forget to get the extra Yum plugins they are pretty useful You can find more info here http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/ Thanks, Sree ----- Original Message ---- From: Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 5:26:50 AM Subject: [twincling] how to specify online repository for Yum Hi all: Does anybody know how to specify an online repository for Yum ? Everytime, I run Yum, the local repository is parsed. What are the common repositories for yum that are generally used ? So far, I have been using Yast on OpenSuSe which is very polished for usage on a desktop system. Appreciate if somebody could share info on Yum. Thanks in advance. thanks Saifi.
