[CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

[Jatin Davey]

On 5/12/2010 11:49 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> Jatin Davey wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I am using CentOS 5.3 and after installing the OS i scrolled to the
>> /etc/yum.repos.d directory and i could not find any repositories being
>> present there. So i googled a bit on adding the repositories and found
>> the link:
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>> http://www.osresources.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=11&id=6&artlang=en
>>
>>      
> thats some *really* bad advice.  really really bad.  undo everything
> yuou did there, and follow this instead...
> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
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I follwed the link that you have given but in it the explanation is 
given assuming that the Base repo is already present in the 
/etc/yum.repos.d directory but in my box i dont have any files in the 
/etc/yum.repos.d directory.

So how do i add these basic needed repositories. In all my other boxes i 
do have it in the yum/repos.d directory. Please guide me in this regard.

Thanks
Jatin