On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:42:22PM -0500, Steve Ingraham alleged: > > Garrick Staples wrote: > >But we might want to back up and ask, "Why do you want yum?" RHEL > isn't > >a free distro and doesn't have any yum repositories. > > Why? Well, I have inherited this system. The previous administrator > had a subscription to up2date that has expired. I have been informed > that yum can update our server in place of up2date so I am attempting to > download it in order to update the server. Are you telling me yum will > not work for this purpose? Am I not going to be able to utilize yum for > updates to redhat? Nope. RHEL updates are based on subscriptions. You need to update your subscription and use up2date, or convert your system to a free distro. You might look into the centos project, it is a free distro based on RHEL. -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20061019/645910c7/attachment.bin
