updating yum

[mckay]

Hi! I have just installed fc4 on my desktop but I can't update yum. When I enter
# yum update

I get a message saying there is an error accecing /etc/yum.conf. Please also help me get mp3 playing on my machine.

[devils casper]

hi mckay !!!

I get a message saying there is an error accecing /etc/yum.conf.

if you getting "permission denied" error... it means you are not logged in as root...
on terminal type
$ su -
enter root password
$ yum update

if this is not the reason, post error message here.....

Please also help me get mp3 playing on my machine

$ yum -y xmms xmms-mp3

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[mckay]

Halo Casper!

Thanx for your help.

I did log in as root and when I enter the update command, this is what I get

Config Error: Error accessing file for config file:///etc/yum.conf

[devils casper]

post the contents of /etc/yum.conf

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[mckay]

I went into the etc directory and listed the contents, but could not find a file called yum.conf. I could only find yum, yum.conf.bak and yum.repos.d.

[devils casper]

hi mckay !!!

where is yum.conf ???
you have yum.conf.bak file.. it means yum.conf file was edited and removed...
rename yum.conf.bak file with yum.conf...

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[mckay]

Okay, I remember following instructions from one link where I moved yum.conf to yum.conf.bak, so I have reversed to process and now I have the yum.conf file back. The update is active and I get this response:

You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing.
However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download
the keys for packages you wish to install and install them.
You can do that by running the command:
rpm --import public.gpg.key


Alternatively you can specify the url to the key you would like to use
for a repository in the 'gpgkey' option in a repository section and yum
will install it for you.

For more information contact your distribution or package provider.

but when I enter the specified rpm command: rpm --import public.gpg.key
I get the following response: error: public.gpg.key: import read failed(-1).

I have also entered the command: yum -y install xmms-mp3
I then get the response as the one above. So what do I do next?

[mckay]

oh by the way, here are the contents of yum.conf:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

[devils casper]

hi mckay !!

these are the default contents of yum.conf file.....

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800

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

you set dag repo in yum.conf.... it should be in in a separate file in yum.repos.d....
dag is giving GPG error......download rpmforge-release. actually its for FC3, there is nothing for FC4 or 5 in dags but i suppose they support FC5 too...
before doing any thing, i suggest you to read this article... look for yum....
copy the contents i posted and paste in yum.conf......
you should have fedors-core.repo, fedors-extera.repo and fedors-update.repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d folder......

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