Re: Yum is not an .rpm package error message

  Jesse Keating wrote:

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>On Monday 17 November 2003 21:10, BFD wrote:
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>>hen trying to install yum on my Fedora system this is what I get
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>>$ rpm -ivh yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
>>yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest):
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>>So how do I install yum to use it?
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>A) where did you download that file from, 
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first, from

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/

and when I got the error message, then from

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/

and still got the error message


>and B) why don't you install the yum that is on your Fedora CDs ? 
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Ultimately, this is what I did, and it seems to be working.

So, while I have a working yum, my concern is what is going on with the 
yum from the repositories.

BFD






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