Fedora Core 2 - up2date Workaround/yum fix - Linux Tip 010
Jeff asked me to post this for him. Here’s what he has to say, timestamp retrodated to his email to me:
Instead of using up2date when first installing a Fedora Core 2 box, and watching up2date seemingly hang indefinately while resolving dependencies in GNOME or KDE, I decided to just use yum directly. However, as FC2 comes out of the box (so to speak), yum does not work properly at the command line.
The error message I was getting when running “yum update” as root was:
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
> Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.
The solution, as I found on one of the Duke mailing lists, was actually for Fedora Core 1 but the same method applied. As root, type “rm -rf /var/cache/yum/base” and then run “yum update” again. This should allow yum to run normally. I hope this helps!
-Jeff
3 Responses to “Fedora Core 2 - up2date Workaround/yum fix - Linux Tip 010”
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Eric Says:
September 21st, 2004 at 21:57:01yum works much better when you change the servers it references:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf
you can also do neat things like set up a crontab for ‘yum -y update’ to run nightly.
www.fedoraforum.org is a handy resource when you encounter any fedora related problem whatsoever
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Bowman Says:
September 22nd, 2004 at 07:42:54Another very good resource on FC2 stuff is
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/
The articles on there are written by Bill Moss, a Clemson professor, and all around nice guy. He’s put a lot of time and effort into writing articles specific to installing Linux distributions on the Clemson laptops, but in general, they can be generalized and applied to most installations. A very good article is the article on Dual Booting with FC2 because of issues with the 2.6 Kernel.
A much better resource than the *other* Clemson Linux page…
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Michael Says:
September 25th, 2004 at 17:53:45Thanks for these excellent links, guys. Let me add to this that, for general questions, LinuxQuestions.org is absolutely top-notch. I was having trouble compiling the kernel for the first time the other day, and I got a response within several minutes.
September 21st, 2004 at 21:57:01
yum works much better when you change the servers it references:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf
you can also do neat things like set up a crontab for ‘yum -y update’ to run nightly.
www.fedoraforum.org is a handy resource when you encounter any fedora related problem whatsoever
September 22nd, 2004 at 07:42:54
Another very good resource on FC2 stuff is
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/
The articles on there are written by Bill Moss, a Clemson professor, and all around nice guy. He’s put a lot of time and effort into writing articles specific to installing Linux distributions on the Clemson laptops, but in general, they can be generalized and applied to most installations. A very good article is the article on Dual Booting with FC2 because of issues with the 2.6 Kernel.
A much better resource than the *other* Clemson Linux page…
September 25th, 2004 at 17:53:45
Thanks for these excellent links, guys. Let me add to this that, for general questions, LinuxQuestions.org is absolutely top-notch. I was having trouble compiling the kernel for the first time the other day, and I got a response within several minutes.