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[Chris Aitken]

Craig Routledge wrote:
> On 2007-11-02 09:49, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>     
>>> Why does your yum want to access adobe?  
>>>       
>> Well, it wants to access it because adobe-linux-i386.repo is in 
>> /etc/yum.repos.d/ and that file contained the line enabled=1
>> /Why/ that adobe repo is even in /etc/yum.repos.d/ is still unknown...
>>
>>     
>>> Mine doesn't seem to.  Did
>>> you add it to some config file?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I don't know when it showed up or got set to enabled=0. The first time 
>> I've ever been in the file was when Jamon suggested I edit it.
>>     
>
> You most likely installed Flash for your web-browser.  
Yes, I /did./ That must be it!
> Macromedia Flash was 
> purchased by Adobe, and Adobe provides a yum repository.
>
> You can check by following the URL in the adobe-linux-i386.repo config file 
> with your web-browser and seeing what's there.
>   
I tried that before from a browser and with  ping - no luck - must be 
dead link - I guess they moved it.
>
> As for your general yum woes, if you think you've done really weird things 
> to your config files and don't remember what they are, just re-install it.  
> Download the latest rpm for yum.  Then:
>
>   rpm -e yum
>   rpm -i [yum-package-name]
>   
Tempting. It's been behaving okay since I set the enabled=0 on the 
offending repositories. But I'll keep your idea on file if it gives me 
grief again. After /I /give /it/ grief, no doubt.

: /
> If compatible, the old configuration files will still be there and the new 
> ones will instead have an .rpmnew extension.  Otherwise the old ones will 
> be renamed to end with .rpmsave and will not be active.  In the first case, 
> rename the old files and strip the .rpmnew extension from the new files and 
> you should be good to go.  In the second case, you're already set.
>
> Make sure you check all your config files.
>   /etc/yum.conf
>
> and those in
>
>   /etc/yum/
>   /etc/yum.repos.d/
>   
Thanks for the step-by-step instructions.
>
> ... and don't feel bad about messing up your system.  When I was playing 
> around with Linux for the first time, I didn't have much disk space and was 
> looking for stuff to remove.  This was the SLS distribution in 1992 at
> kernel version 0.99.something.  I was merely playing with UNIX at home 
> because it seemed cool in those days just to *have* such a thing.  Read the 
> documentation?  Don't be silly.  I was having far too much fun doing 
> juvenile things like logging in several times and looking at the "w" and 
> "who" output.  For some bizarre reason I thought proc was only involved in 
> the installation process.  So I did an "rm -Rf /proc"
>
> Strangely enough, the system didn't like that and I had to do a complete 
> re-install.
>   
:)

Chris
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