Yum is not an .rpm package error message

Tom Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 18 06:49:20 UTC 2003


On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, BFD wrote:
>   Jesse Keating wrote:
> >On Monday 17 November 2003 21:10, BFD wrote:
> >  
> >>hen trying to install yum on my Fedora system this is what I get
> >>
> >>$ rpm -ivh yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> >>yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest):
...
> >A) where did you download that file from, 
...
> first, from
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/

The web download and the disc versions look exactly the same to me.
 $ md5sum /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm /tmp/yum*
 dd4249018c1674b73e9ddab08828303f  /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
 dd4249018c1674b73e9ddab08828303f  /tmp/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
 $ sum /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm /tmp/yum*
 29472   127 /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
 29472   127 /tmp/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm

Did you save the bad file.  If so how does it compare with
the above and with the version on your disc.  By chance does
the file contain something like an HTML message that says try 
later?  Look at the bad file with 'file' and with 'less'.

I did notice that mozilla on RH-9.0 had trouble rendering the page
for me which is why I am posting this.






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