[WBEL-users] Running up2date

[Tom Cooper]

Denis Croombs wrote:

> I have changed mine, but still get the same error how do I tell it to 
> use the mirror without running up2date in X (no X installed)
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Denis


Make the recommended edist below, and make sure that ncsu (or some other 
mirror) is at the bottom of the list of sites.  I found out the hard way 
that yum uses the last entry first.

If you need more assistance with this, please let me know, and I'll help 
you get it working.

>     You haven't changed your up2date to point to another site ...
>     other than whiteboxlinux.org ... edit the file:
>
>     /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
>
>     and put a # in front of the whiteboxlinux site (like this):
>
>     #yum WBEL-3.0 http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386
>     #yum updates-released http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/updates
>
>     then download from a mirror, like this:
>
>     yum WBEL-3.0
>     http://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386
>     <ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386/>
>     yum updates-released
>     http://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates
>     <ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/>
>
>     Johnny Hughes
>      
>
>
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