thx for your reply craig,
weird though, which doesnt see it, rpm doesnt, neither does the cmd
line.
[root@linland tmp]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6
(disk),10(wheel)
[root@linland tmp]# which yum
/usr/bin/which: no yum in
(/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)
[root@linland tmp]# yum
-bash: yum: command not found
[root@linland tmp]# rpm -ql yum
package yum is not installed
is it supposed to be installed after an everything install of fc4 ?
i thought i had done all on the distribution, was i supposed to load it
later?
thx...
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:50 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:37 -0800, jackc wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> this list has informed me of the error of my ways installing
> rpm's directly and not using yum.
>
> however, i installed everything and i see no yum as the root user.
>
> what else am i missing?
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using rpm is fine - yum uses it too.
It's just that yum can automatically obtain and install dependent
packages thereby alleviating much of the headaches that you would likely
have simply trying to install things via rpm commands.
to verify that you have yum...
# which yum
Note the # which means that I done an 'su -' to root
# rpm -ql yum|less
Note that this shows me where the yum rpm puts it's files
# yum update
Note that this checks all installed repositories for updates
Which of these commands doesn't work for you?
Craig
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