Matthew Benjamin wrote:
Can someone tell me what I need to do to get yum working.The yum.conf file looks like the following.
[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=fedora-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1
[base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever
[updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
#[updates-testing] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates #baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever
And the answer (which has not changed from the many times this has been answered in the archives) :) is:
Look at:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
in short, use a mirror.