error when i install yum.

tdnguyenitvn · **Post subject:** error when i install yum. **Posted:** Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:43 pm

Error when I install yum
the following error

[root@Redhat setuplinux]# rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/yum/yum-2.0.4-1.rh.fr.src.rpm
Retrieving http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/yum/yum-2.0.4-1.rh.fr.src.rpm
error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

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drewm320 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:25 am

There probably isn't a 'redhat' directory in /usr/src. The RPM tries to create the SOURCES directory but runs into that error because /usr/src/redhat doesn't exist.

mkdir /usr/src/redhat

That should fix it.