[Yum] help needed in yum installation

Sumesh P.T. sumesh.pt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 17:59:31 UTC 2008


Thanks for the quick response. I cud install yum. But I cant use it. It says
the following:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[root at onsager Download]# yum -y update
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2806.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
and it continues till I press ^C
Thanks
Sumesh

On Jan 24, 2008 11:25 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:14 +0530, Sumesh P.T. wrote:
> > Thanks Timms,
> > I had already installed yum again. But it is also not working. I have
> > pasted the commands I tried, the main one is highlighted. Are you able
> > to make out something?
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > [root at onsager drops]# rpm -V yum*
> > package yum.conf is not installed
> > [root at onsager drops]# cd /home/drops/Download/
> > [root at onsager Download]# ls
> > yum-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm  yum-updatesd-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
> > [root at onsager Download]# rpm -V yum*
> > package yum-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm is not installed
> > package yum-updatesd-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm is not installed
> > [root at onsager Download]# rpm -Va yum* python* sql*
> > .......T d /usr/share/man/man1/sqlite3.1.gz
> > [root at onsager Download]# rpm -Va yum*
> > [root at onsager Download]#
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > some squilte error and hence time out comes when i run yum.
>
> the sqlite issue is a man page - ignore it.
>
> what is the error you're seeing that makes you need to reinstall yum,
> again?
>
> -sv
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Yum mailing list
> Yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
>



-- 
Regards,
Sumesh

" A vector is a vector is a vector"
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/attachments/20080124/7b04ec73/attachment-0001.htm 


More information about the Yum mailing list