On 5/12/2010 11:49 AM, John R Pierce 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: >> >> 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > 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