On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:29:47AM -0600, JARET HARGREAVES wrote: > Having just completed a Fedora Core 2 installation, I thought I > would check out yum and use it to update xmms (to allow it to play > mp3s). Typing "yum list" at the command line yielded the following > error message: > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Red Hat Linux 2 - i386 - Base > Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found > Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system. I'm betting that: a) this was your first time to run yum on the new system b) you were not running it as root Try running it as root. Basically, yum needs root in order to populate its cache. If you run it as non-root (to do 'yum list', for example) then it will attempt to simply use the cache without updating it. That doesn't work if the cache doesn't exist, though :) -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
