Re: Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

[Jatin Davey <jashokda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/12/2010 12:26 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:18:59PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote:
>    
>> I follwed the link that you have given but in it the explanation is
>> given assuming that the Base repo is already present in the
>> /etc/yum.repos.d directory but in my box i dont have any files in the
>> /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
>>
>> So how do i add these basic needed repositories. In all my other boxes i
>> do have it in the yum/repos.d directory. Please guide me in this regard.
>>      
> 	You are running some VPS-incarnation of CentOS, aren't you?
>
> 	Try the following link and follow the applicable steps:
>
> 	http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver
>
>
>
>
>    
> 							John
>    

As per the link it says that the yum is broken but yum is working on my 
box , it gave me the following output when i try to install the net-snmp 
package.

[root@sc-devld-1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Client is not a 
valid release or hasnt been released yet
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base


Thanks
Jatin
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