[plug] using yum

[Deeþan Chakravarthy]

David Buddrige wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use yum to install abiword on my Fedora Core system.
>
> The error I have been receiving suggets to me that the rpm 
> repositories I have been trying to access are not available.  To 
> resolve this problem, I tried adding
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ to the list of repositories at the bottom 
> of /etc/yum.conf.  However when I run yum it does not [apparently] 
> even look there.  I have pasted the full output of my yum session 
> below.  Can anyone help me out on what I need to do in order to get 
> the system to use a functioning repository?
>
> thanks heaps guys
>
> David.
Hi David,
   The reason why it did not look mirror.aarnet.edu.au is because it 
probably was down in the list.. to force yum to use a repository .. you 
can use the option --disable-repo and disable the unwanted ones and 
--enable-repo and add mirror.aarnet.edu.au in that.  I suggest you 
update to Fedora 7. In F7 most of the packages are in core; hence you 
wont have these problems. Good luck

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