repository question

[runtt21]

How do you remove a repository from yum? nano cant edit /etc/yum.repos.d

[oz]

You must have root permissions to edit anything outside of your own /home directory. Try it this way:

su

nano /etc/yum.repos.d

[runtt21]

nano cant do it [ "/etc/yum.repos.d" is a directory ] and i did it as root the first time.

[oz]

I'm not running Fedora, Red Hat, or CentOS, so can't check it personally to see what is what but I found this page (section 8.1) that should help you to get it all sorted:

Managing Software with yum

It's for CentOS but should work about the same.

To completely remove access to a repository:

1. Delete the relevant file from /etc/yum.repos.d/.
2. Delete the cache directory from /var/cache/yum/.

[oz]

Oh, and to remove a file using the command line, you'd su to root, then enter:

rm /path/to/file

Hope that helps.

[daark.child]

Another option would be to edit the repo file of the repository you wish to disable (the files are in /etc/yum.repos.d) and chage "enabled=1" to "enabled=0".