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yum 2.0.7 and Cannot find baseurl or name for server 'base'. Skipping

Hi

I have installed yum under redhat using:

Code:

wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-2.0.7.tar.gz

    tar -xvzf yum-2.0.7.tar.gz

    cd yum-2.0.7

    ./configure

    make

    make install

(this is the only method by which I could install it successfully)

it looks like its basically working (i can run yum) but I cant see a list of softwares or install softwares here is what i receive for example when trying to install lynx:

Code:

[root@xxxxx~]# yum install lynx

Error: Cannot find baseurl or name for server 'updates'. Skipping

Error: Cannot find baseurl or name for server 'base'. Skipping

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)

Finding updated packages

Downloading needed headers

No Packages Available for Update or Install

No actions to take

it looks like the servers that are defined in /etc/yum.conf are incorrect, I have spent hours upon hours on trying to find correct servers, in forums, in the internet with no success, every server that i tried did not work for me.. :(

Can someone guide me of what I should do? (and if someone has servers that are working can he share them with me assuming that is my problem...)

Thanks...

What distro are you using?

What do your repo files look like?

I think I only have this file

Code:

[root@xxxxx ~]# cat /etc/yum.conf

[main]

cachedir=/var/cache/yum

debuglevel=2

logfile=/var/log/yum.log

pkgpolicy=newest

distroverpkg=redhat-release

tolerant=1

exactarch=1



[base]

name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base

baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/



[updates]

name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates

baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

So are you using redhat EL?

ps what's in /etc/yum.repos.d

Code:

[root@xxxxx ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d

cat: /etc/yum.repos.d: No such file or directory

Code:

[root@xxxxx ~]# cat /etc/issue

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)

Kernel \r on an \m

Code:

[root@xxxxx ~]# uname -a

Linux xxxxx 2.6.9-5.EL #1 Wed Jan 5 19:22:18 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

And by the way what those ES and EL mean?

Thanks