Problem adding yum repositories & yum crashes

[nicole]

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On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Thanks for your encouragement Norberto, the admission of your past
> difficulties helps me feel less of a dunce.  However, my problem is
> compounded as well by the fact that I do not have a CD-RW upon which I
> could create CDs of 3.0.1.  Also I have only the original YDL 3.0 disks
> which I purchased directly from Terra Soft... you just gave me an idea.
>
> There are images of YDL 3.0.1 which can be burned onto blank CDs as 
> long
> as one actually purchased YDL 3.0 right??  OK... where is that or where
> are they???  Anyone know??
>
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 12:07, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>> Derick I don't want to discourage you, but back in the middle of June
>> I got caught in a vicious cycle of trying to get yum itself upgraded
>> by using apt-get and vice-a-versa.  I ended up in dependency hell and
>> just did a clean install of YDL3.0.1  Because even after getting
>> everything - yum and apt-get -  to work no matter what I downloaded,
>> there was always some file missing that was physically there.  I hope
>> you can get it to work though, it'll be a nice faq ;)
>>
>> --- Derick Centeno <> wrote:
>>
>>> There are times when working with this list is quasi-mystical!
>>> Rick, I
>>> was working with apt-get because my thoughts had moved in your
>>> direction
>>> and the rpms I had gotten were getting me nowhere as they
>>> themselves
>>> kept referring to other dependencies, etc.
>
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