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I was installing yum from the server folder.
first i copied the server folder in a folder which was at root
then i change the current directory to server
and ...
- 02-06-2011 #1Just Joined!
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Yum Installation
I was installing yum from the server folder.
first i copied the server folder in a folder which was at root
then i change the current directory to server
and then create a repo by using following command
Server]# rpm ivh createrepo then tab to get the correct name
then ]# createrepo .
]#cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
]# cp -apr rhel_debug_info.repo yum.repo
]# vi yum.repo
[yum.repo]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=Site Url
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=Site Url
~
butr when i run
yum install vsftpd then i get the following error
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 5Server - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file Site Url
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
Please reply me how can i completely install the yum so that i can install my necessary packages
- 02-08-2011 #2
If you have a Redhat contract you should contact them to help with setting up RH repos.
If you don't have a contact then you wont be able to use there repos like that.


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