On 5/12/2010 12:26 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:18:59PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> 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. >> > You are running some VPS-incarnation of CentOS, aren't you? > > Try the following link and follow the applicable steps: > > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver > > > > > > John > As per the link it says that the yum is broken but yum is working on my box , it gave me the following output when i try to install the net-snmp package. [root at sc-devld-1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Client is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base Thanks Jatin