Still havin trouble with Yum

[VanHalenMan]

Alright. I isntalled FC11 on my comp a while ago. Thinking that It didnt have yum I tried to overwrite the installation with another installation of it. Im guessing that this is the source for my problems. Every time I try to do anything 'yum' related I get errors like:
(doing simple 'yum upgrade')

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "yummain.py", line 88, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "cli.py", line 203, in getOptionsConfig
    self.plugins.run('args', args=args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 170, in run
    raise ValueError('unknown slot name "%s"' % slotname)
ValueError: unknown slot name "args"

So I figured Id try to get a yum rpm and try to install it again. But any time I try to install any rpm it does that thing about warnings that such and such user doesnt exist. I read about that and apparently for most people it usually goes on and finishes the installation with a differnet user instead. But with mine it says that error a good 20 times and then stops. So I guess I just need to uninstall Yum all together and reinstall it. I looked around and cant seem to find an answer, Sorry if this is redundant. Thanks.

[devils casper]

But any time I try to install any rpm it does that thing about warnings that such and such user doesn't exist

It looks like you are trying to install source rpm (.src.rpm) instead of regular rpm (.rpm) package. Regular rpm doesn't throw any such errors except dependency errors, if any.

Thinking that It didnt have yum I tried to overwrite the installation with another installation of it. Im guessing that this is the source for my problems.

Which version of Fedora are you using right now? If this problem is popping up in every install, then you must be doing some thing wrong with yum.

How do you configure yum after fresh installation?

[glennzo]

Most of the time all you need is yum clean all and yum update. That should fix it right up.

[VanHalenMan]

Ok I finally got around to trying what glennzo said (sorry it took so long)
and I get this: (think its the same error)

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "yummain.py", line 88, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "cli.py", line 203, in getOptionsConfig
    self.plugins.run('args', args=args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 170, in run
    raise ValueError('unknown slot name "%s"' % slotname)
ValueError: unknown slot name "args"

[JamesNZ]

There's a section of the installation program that asks whether you want to choose the programs you want in your installation now or later through the package manager.

The option to choose the programs to install now is an option on the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. Click that and you will be presented with the list of available packages. The option to install yum I think is in the 'Programming' section, or something like that. Then try again and remember to look at the man page for yum.

[glennzo]

su
<password>
rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -rebuilddb
yum update

[VanHalenMan]

su
<password>
rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -rebuilddb
yum update

Same old error when I do yum update

[VanHalenMan]

*bump*
Also. When I use the "Add/Remove software" program, I assume I have to have the installaction CDs/DVDs in? If so, is there a way I can do it without?

[glennzo]

You don't need the installation disks. If the file/etc/yum.repos.d/packagekit-media.repo exists make sure it is disabled.

[jselover]

Have you looked to see where the first 'yum' package you attempted to install is located.

If you installed yum from a tarball, and ran configure,make,make install kind of stuff, by default, yum would likely be installed into the /usr/local/ directory tree. (/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc..) By default, /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin appear in your $PATH environment var before /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, so, even though you have since installed yum via a rpm, your system may still be finding the manually installed yum command in /usr/local/bin/ first.

Use 'which yum' to see where the default yum command lives.

If you still have the yum build tree you used, you can try running 'make uninstall' within that tree to remove the /usr/local version.
Otherwise, you can move yum commands in /usr/local/bin to another location.