Subha wrote:
> hi,
> I installed yum.
> But if I try to perform any operation like install,update,remove I'm
> getting the following error
> Cannot find any conf file.eg I tried something like this
> yum -y update jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.rpm
> and I got error "Cannot find any conf file"
> I was in the directory where jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.rpm file exists.
> I was trying this command by entering su and my password.
> how to execute commands with yum?..please help.
>
> Regards
> Subhadip
>

I think yum is looking for the /etc/yum.conf file, if you don't have it,
this is what mine looks like on FC4

> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> retries=20
> obsoletes=1
> gpgcheck=1
> metadata_expire=1800
>
> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
> # in /etc/yum.repos.d