RE: fixing yum

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Old Fart wrote:
| Claude Jones wrote:
|| Old Fart wrote:
|| 
||| Claude Jones wrote:
||| 
|||| I've read your posts, but I'm failing to understand a
|||| probably obvious thing. Can someone tell me how to fix yum.
|||| I've gotten past the fix gdm issue. I'm not understanding
|||| what is broken about yum. Do I need to download and install
|||| the laterst version from the development server? Or, is it
|||| something that's wrong with yum.conf file? Or, something
|||| else.  
|||| 
||| Would you be referring to fedora-devel.repo in
||| /etc/yum.repos.d and adding the following line? 
||| 
||| gpgcheck=0?
||| 
|| I turned that off in yum.conf to enable the update of yum.
|| Does turning that switch off permanently in the repos file
|| open any other cans of worms? 
|| 
| Not that I know of.  What kind of errors are you seeing?  Any
| error messages?

If I do yum -y update, after some time, it runs a list of packages
to be updated, followed by a series of messages:
 ---> Processing Dependency: [name of package]
Followed by:
Error: Missing Dependency: [name of package}

There are about fifteen of those. Then I just revert to the
prompt.

Regards, 
Claude (I bet I'm older than you...) Jones 
Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
Leesburg, VA, USA



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