YUM Headers Cannot Be Found
 

Hiii...

i trying to install ffmpeg using YUM.. but while installing i'm getting error like this


-bash-3.1$ yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 5Server - i386 - Base
Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.


i am searching for the solution .. to fix this

anyone help me please?

Just guessing here - maybe "yum update" will update the indexes and solve this problem for you. You can also try "yum clean all".
Hope it helps.

You need to be ROOT to install package. From the output that you have pasted you do not seem to be root. Once you get the privileges do

yes i am in the root

again getting same error while Updating YUM using "update yum"

If you are the root how do you have the user prompt?

I am using putty software to login into our server..

so the prompt is like that

Whatever way you login you get user prompt for normal user and hash prompt for root.

Edit: I mistakenly said dollar prompt for root. It should have been "#".
Chris has already corrected it though.

Should be hash '#' prompt for root. Re post #4, its 'yum update' not 'update yum'. yum is the tool/cmd, update is the arg/param.