[Yum] help needed in yum installation

[Sumesh P.T.]

fedora 7, its a 64 bit machine.

On Dec 4, 2007 8:55 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 18:21 +0530, Sumesh P.T. wrote:
> > I am a newbie in linux. so plz bear with me.
> > I happened to install an old version of yum 2.0.7. It doesnt work. I
> > want to uninstall it and install the latest. I face these problems.
> >
> > 1. wen i try uninstalling yum
> > [root at onsager aditya]# rpm -e yum
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         yum = 3.2.0-1.fc7 is needed by (installed)
> > yum-updatesd-3.2.0-1.fc7.noarch
> >         yum >= 2.9.5 is needed by (installed)
> > pirut-1.3.7-1.fc7.noarch
> > [root at onsager aditya]# sudo rpm -e yum
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         yum = 3.2.0-1.fc7 is needed by (installed)
> > yum-updatesd-3.2.0-1.fc7.noarch
> >         yum >= 2.9.5 is needed by (installed)
> > pirut-1.3.7-1.fc7.noarch
> > [root at onsager aditya]#
> >
> > How do I do that?
> > 2. I have downloaded yum 3.2.8. How to install it? I dont see ./config
> > file.
> >
>
> What version of what distro are you using?
>
> -sv
>
>
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Regards,
Sumesh

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