Cups problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:45 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

> david walcroft wrote:
> > [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all
> > Cleaning up Everything
> > [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer
> > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
> > baseurl=ftp://reddwarf:4skin46@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/
> > 
> > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
> > failovermethod=priority
> > http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> > [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> > Trying other mirror.
> > updates-released                                                 26 kB
> > 00:00
> > http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> > [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged
> > repomd.xml file
> > Trying other mirror.
> > updates-released          100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
> > primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
> > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
> > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
> > 
> > base                      100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml:
> > [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file
> > Trying other mirror.
> > base                      100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
> > primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
> > Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> > Finished
> > Setting up Install Process
> > Parsing package install arguments
> > No package system-config-printer available.
> 
> This is a problem.  If you cannot find it, there is something wrong with
> your fedora repo configuration.  In fact, it hasn't been called "base"
> for a while now.  It should be called "fedora".

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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.

another URL for updates uses 'core' which clearly won't work.

his URL for 'base' is clearly from an old Fedora because the folder is
now called 'Packages' and not 'Fedora'

OK David...here's what you do. (you can probably just paste this all
into a terminal)

su - # get root
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
mkdir old-repos
mv fedora* old-repos
rpm -ivh --replacepkgs \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install system-config-printer

This should get your repos back in order (whatever you did to the
configuration I don't know)

Craig
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