Unable to install applications..

stan gryt2 at q.com
Sat Aug 22 21:35:15 UTC 2009


On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:35:51 +0530 (IST)
Sanjeev Gopinath <sanjeevgopinath at ymail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I tried to install Electronic Lab for fedora 11 and I had this
> persistent problem..!
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at localhost Sanjeev]# yum install 'Electronic Lab' Loaded
> plugins: refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve repository
> metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path
> and try again
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> can sum1 help me know what exactly I have to do to solve this issue.!

A quick comment before I give you your answer.  When I see questions
with no capitalization and abbreviations like you've typed above, I
think it's like you are saying, 'My time is valuable, yours is not.'
How much extra effort to type 'Can someone', making your question easy
to read?

Two things:

I think you want to use the command
yum groupinstall 'Electronic Lab'
or
yum groupinstall electronic-lab

and

there is something wrong with the repository you are pointing to.  Try
using a different repository.

I just point to the main Fedora repositories in
my   /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo file and it worked fine.  I was able
to run this command successfully (it wanted to install 154 MB of
packages).

This is the meta mirror my fedora.repo file points to:
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch




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