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On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:45 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">david walcroft wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Cleaning up Everything</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> baseurl=<A HREF="ftp://reddwarf:4">ftp://reddwarf:4</A><A HREF="mailto:skin46@premium.planetmirror.com">skin46@premium.planetmirror.com</A>/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> failovermethod=priority</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml">http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml</A>:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Trying other mirror.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> updates-released 26 kB</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 00:00</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml">http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml</A>:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> repomd.xml file</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Trying other mirror.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> updates-released 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 914 kB 00:01</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> mirrorlist=<A HREF="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386">http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> base 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml</A>:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Trying other mirror.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> base 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 914 kB 00:01</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Excluding Packages in global exclude list</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Finished</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Setting up Install Process</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Parsing package install arguments</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> No package system-config-printer available.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is a problem. If you cannot find it, there is something wrong with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">your fedora repo configuration. In fact, it hasn't been called "base"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">for a while now. It should be called "fedora".</FONT>
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good catch...his URL for 'updates-released' (which should be fedora) points to an ftp with a login and password and it doesn't work.<BR>
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another URL for updates uses 'core' which clearly won't work.<BR>
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his URL for 'base' is clearly from an old Fedora because the folder is now called 'Packages' and not 'Fedora'<BR>
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OK David...here's what you do. (you can probably just paste this all into a terminal)<BR>
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su - # get root<BR>
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/<BR>
mkdir old-repos<BR>
mv fedora* old-repos<BR>
rpm -ivh --replacepkgs \<BR>
<A HREF="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm</A><BR>
yum update<BR>
yum install system-config-printer<BR>
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This should get your repos back in order (whatever you did to the configuration I don't know)<BR>
<BR>
Craig
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