Could anybody tell me how to install Fedora Core 2 on my cube. Currently running yellow dog. Have downloaded the tree from a mirror but how do I use yum to install? I have the tree on a local server so access is going to be easy. On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:15, Michael Stenner wrote: > 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
