yum repositories question

[bob smith]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:13:36 -0400, bob smith wrote:
>
>   
>> Stuart Sears wrote:
>>     
>>> bob smith wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> What it looks like to me is I do not have the proper copy of the
>>>> repositories.
>>>> Does some one have a working copy, and example, I can try for 386/686
>>>> system?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> rpm -Uvh
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm
>>>
>>> (that link will wrap)
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>   
>>>       
>> thanks, but this is what I got.
>> error: skipping http://download.fe.........(concatenated by me)
>> transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
>>     
>
> Then try:
>
> wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm
>
> rpm -Uvh fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm
>
>   
Michael,
Thanks, worked like a charm. I surely don't understand why rpm command 
did not work..... grrrr.
thanks!!
bob

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