[SOLVED] Finding the default repository directory for yum

[johnacandy]

How can i find the default repository directory ?? one of the reasons why i need to know this is so that i can place any new downloaded .rpm files in that directory and then use
> yum install filename
to install that package ..
(does that make sense ?? is that a good idea ??)
I just installed a new linux and i am trying to get familiar with the enviroment. I know that yum gets the source directories from /etc/yum.repos.d but i really couldnt understand the files in there. Any advice would be appreciated

[oz]

You can look in the following directory for the cache of packages installed by yum:

/var/cache/yum/

Note that you'll need root permissions to manipulate files in that directory.

[johnacandy]

@ozar thanks for taking the time to help me out
inside /var/cache/yum
there is only a folder called i386 which contains a single folder called 14 and that contains a folder called rpmfusion-free this folder contains a lot of xml files what does that mean any help pleae

[ProfTheory]

@ozar thanks for taking the time to help me out
inside /var/cache/yum
there is only a folder called i386 which contains a single folder called 14 and that contains a folder called rpmfusion-free this folder contains a lot of xml files what does that mean any help pleae

There is no single directory where the files are kept. It creates a tree with /var/cache/yum/{arch}/{release}/{repository}/packages

arch = i386, release = 14 for Fedora 14, repository = rpmfusion-free or updates, fedora etc.

The packages directory would contain the RPMs. The xml files contain the yum meta data (repository information.)

Also by default Fedora doesn't save the files installed.

If you want the RPMs (and DRPMs for presto delta-rpms) saved you'll need to change that in the /etc/yum.conf file.

What you are proposing to do won't work as you are expecting. You are better off using the localinstall option for yum.

[Mudgen]

For downloaded rpms, you can use "yum localinstall <filename>". The file can be in any folder. I keep them in /root/rpm, just to have them in one place. "yum install" is going to look in the configured repos, not on the local system.

You'll need either to install the gpg signing key for the rpm package, or use "yum --nogpgcheck localinstall <filename>".

[kurtdriver]

Rather then ask which repo is "default" ask which ones do I have, and which ones do I need? To find out which ones are enabled, type

yum repolist

Rpmfusion contains stuff that can't be in the official Fedora repos, for any of several reasons, licensing is one, some of the packages in Rpmfusion are not free as in speech, think multimedia codecs, for instance.

Livna was formerly used for one package only, libdvdcss, required for DVD decryption. These days Livna is down a lot and there is no need to update that one package, (and it is unmaintained), so get it from atrpms and then use yum to erase atrpms repo from your computer.

You'll probably want Adobe's repo for flash and maybe Google's for chrome or Google Earth. Other then that you should NOT enable others, unless you have specific needs. There is a repo, for instance, with scientific software. Using Atrpms and others with Fedora and Rpmfusion is almost guaranteed to case problems. The Fedora and Rpmfusion repos are designed to work with each other.

You might be interested in a script called FedoraPlus, which can set these things up for you, or you can do it yourself with help from MjmWired