[CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

Wed May 12 08:09:10 UTC 2010
Jatin Davey <jashokda at cisco.com>

On 5/12/2010 1:33 PM, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> Jatin Davey wrote:
>    
>> 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:
>>
>>      
> That sounds very much like you've actually installed RHEL and not CentOS.
>
> You can look at /etc/redhat-release to see what you've actually installed.
>
> -tgc
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This is what i get as the output when i check the release of my system:

[root at sc-devld-1 pluginconf.d]# cat /etc/*release
CentOS release 5.3 (Final)

Thanks
Jatin