[CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

Wed May 12 06:19:49 UTC 2010
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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:
>
> 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