How do I update YUM repositories? [closed]
I am very, very new to all this so baby steps please if helping is appreciated.
I am trying to connect to the following repository so I can update my YUM packages: http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/SRPMS/
honestly I have no idea how to do that from SSH though - any guidance is very appreciative.
The instructions are listed at: http://www.webtatic.com/projects/yum-repository/
rpm -ivh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/`uname -i`/webtatic-release-5-0.noarch.rpm
yum clean metadata
Taken from "man yum" ?clean
CLEAN OPTIONS yum clean expire-cache Eliminate the local data saying when the metadata and mirrorlists were downloaded for each repo. This means yum will revalidate the cache for each repo. next time it is used. However if the cache is still valid, nothing significant was deleted. yum clean packages Eliminate any cached packages from the system. Note that packages are not automatically deleted after they are downloaded. yum clean headers Eliminate all of the header files, which old versions of yum used for dependency resolution. yum clean metadata Eliminate all of the files which yum uses to determine the remote availability of packages. Using this option will force yum to download all the metadata the next time it is run. yum clean dbcache Eliminate the sqlite cache used for faster access to metadata. Using this option will force yum to download the sqlite metadata the next time it is run, or recreate the sqlite metadata if using an older repo. yum clean rpmdb Eliminate any cached data from the local rpmdb. yum clean plugins Tell any enabled plugins to eliminate their cached data. yum clean all Does all of the above. As a convenience, if this command does not result in a completely empty cache due to the restrictions outlined at the beginning of this section, a message will be printed, saying how much disk space can be reclaimed by cleaning the remaining repos manually. For this purpose, a repo is considered clean when its disk usage doesn't exceed 64KB (that is to account for directory entries and tiny metadata files such as "productid" that are never cleaned).