On Monday 5 September 2005 16:52, Kevin McMahon wrote: > I am trying to change the yum.conf file and when I make a change it says > i do not have write privileges, I am doing this as root and am not in a > text editor, just open the file in the directory. I make a change to > where yum will look for headers and I get the above, any clues... I try > and open it with 'vim' as in vim yum.conf and it says vim not a command, > i open the file with vi and there is nothing there... Hope you can help
Again, from your message, I can't deduce what you did exactly. Try the following (exactly!): - open a terminal via the menu or the taskbar - in this terminal type: su - - enter your root password as requested - next type: vi /etc/yum.conf That should open your yum configuration file. If there is nothing there, I would suggest you use your webbrowser to surf to one of the ydl ftp mirrors, download the yum rpm package, and as root, reinstall this package using rpm: - become root, by entering 'su -' in a terminal - type rpm -Uvh --force <path to your freshly downloaded yum rpm package) Maybe that will help you. Geert Jan > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
