Yum Keeps Giving Error

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:17:30 +0530, Abhishek Rane wrote:

>        I tried installing a software on yum and yum sort of starts 
> giving error.Here is the error...Yum simply doesnt work after that..Any 
> solutions?
> 
> 
> yum install picasa
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> google                    100% |=========================|  951 B    
> 00:00    
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
> 00:00    
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 267 kB    
> 00:32    
> http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/8/i386/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: 
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

1) "yum clean metadata"
2) Patience while mirrors sync new updates and new metadata.
3) Disable mirrorlist and select your favourite fedora mirror manually
   with an appropriate baseurl= in the .repo file.