yum conf file - where is it??
 

Hi all,

as a fedora and yum newbie, I need to change the repos listed in the yum.conf file... however, I don't know where to find it. Using SSH, what command brings up the contents of the file so that I can paste the new stuff into it. I've spent all day looking for it in vain. Please help :)

Your yum.conf should be located in /etc/. If it's missing, you may want to download the yum rpm from redhat's site and install it, that should replace the default configuration file.

I think it's probably just /etc/yum.conf , but i've only briefly used fedora a while back. could be wrong, but most of your confiruation files will be stored in /etc/

I've tried yum -c /etc/yum.conf with no luck as it tells me permission denied.

you don't need to specify the file, just leave off the -c /etc/yum.conf. Yum will look there automatically for it. As for the permission denied, are you root? If so, check the permissions on yum.conf. (ls -l /etc/yum.conf). The file should be owned by root and owner should have read and write permission on it. If not, you can add these (chmod u+rw /etc/yum.conf).

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/etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d -- where you can list them individually

Thanks for all your help, I will try out what you suggest.