Maybe I'm thick but...

[steve s]

Hey Sean.

I am as new as this as you but this is my two cents and I hope it orks out 
for you!

If your installation is new then you have the same problem I had. Log in as 
root then open the file YUM.CONF (should be located in /etc/) and add the 
following  to it:

START COPY

[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMS
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/

STOP COPY

I left out the other stuff I had in the other email because they will 
already be in your YUM.CONF file and all you need to do is just add the 
above to it. After doing this log out of the root account then log on with 
your user account and go to the Konsole and enter "SU" then type the root 
password to get root priveleges and type:

yum list updates

YUM will go to each address in your yum.conf file and list all the files 
that need to be updated on your system. Then basically type:

yum update (insert package name here)

YUM wil then get the needed files and update your system. Repeat the above 
until nothing appears when you type "yum list updates" and you know your 
system is updated. When you finish downloading a new package give your 
browser a try and type localhost to see if the default APACHE page appears 
to see if it works. I tried APACHE out after downloading around half the 
updates listed in "yum list updates" and thats when APACHE started working.

As for the folder to put your web pages open the file httpd.conf (should be 
located in /etc/httpd/conf) and look for the word "Documentroot". The path 
next to that is were you place you web pages. It should be "/var/www/html" 
if you didnt change anything.

Give it a try.
Take care.


>From: Sean Lewis <sean@mbd-ltd.co.uk>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: "'yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com'" 
><yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Subject: RE: Maybe I'm thick but...
>Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:37:03 +0100
>
>Hi Steve
>
>I'm not too sure what you actually do with that config script, or how to 
>run
>it. I looked on the YDL site for some info on yum and found I could find 
>out
>what updated packages are available. Apache doesn't seem to be amongst the
>packages available for update for me, so I can't see how this would work
>unless it was some other part of the system that was at fault.
>
>I am still pretty much finding my way around the system and still get lost
>trying to figure out where things are kept. If I wanted to reinstall 
>apache,
>what would I need to do? and, would it make any difference? Also, where can
>I find the Apache documents folder where I will put my webpages.
>
>Again, any help would be much appreciated
>
>Sean.
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