[Yum] Help

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:06 +0100, N'Jal wrote:
> Hi everyone i'm relativly new to the Linux world but i have downloaded
> Yum and gotten it working however i thought i should download the
> latest version i did this and installed it. Now i get error messeges
> saying there are no servers left to try. Now i know this is non-sense
> because i have been using an older version for some time. And again as
> the latest one didnt work i decided to uninstall and re-install the
> old one, this has not worked. I have a Fedora 2 system however i an
> older version that worked fine.
> 
> I suspect it might mean i have to change something in the config file,
> however i do not know where to find the file and once found what to do
> with it.
> 
> I would really like to get YUM working again as it is the best way of
> installing updates so anyone that could help me the help would be much
> appriciated.

what version did you have trouble with.

You should not use the yum 2.1.X versions unless you:
1. know what you're doing
2. know that your repositories support the new metadata.

so if you installed fedora core 2 - stick with the version they provide
in the distro.

-sv