Re: help needed in yum installation

"Sumesh P.T." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for the quick response. I cud install yum. But I cant use it. It says
the following:
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[root@onsager Download]# yum -y update
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2806.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
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and it continues till I press ^C
Thanks
Sumesh

On Jan 24, 2008 11:25 PM, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:14 +0530, Sumesh P.T. wrote:
> > Thanks Timms,
> > I had already installed yum again. But it is also not working. I have
> > pasted the commands I tried, the main one is highlighted. Are you able
> > to make out something?
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > [root@onsager drops]# rpm -V yum*
> > package yum.conf is not installed
> > [root@onsager drops]# cd /home/drops/Download/
> > [root@onsager Download]# ls
> > yum-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm  yum-updatesd-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
> > [root@onsager Download]# rpm -V yum*
> > package yum-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm is not installed
> > package yum-updatesd-3.2.7-2.fc7.noarch.rpm is not installed
> > [root@onsager Download]# rpm -Va yum* python* sql*
> > .......T d /usr/share/man/man1/sqlite3.1.gz
> > [root@onsager Download]# rpm -Va yum*
> > [root@onsager Download]#
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > some squilte error and hence time out comes when i run yum.
>
> the sqlite issue is a man page - ignore it.
>
> what is the error you're seeing that makes you need to reinstall yum,
> again?
>
> -sv
>
>
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Sumesh

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