error in update list

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:38:13 -0700, Les wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
> 	I am getting a strange error:
> 
> Error Downloading Packages:
>   AdobeReader_enu-9.3.2-1.i486: failure:
> AdbeRdr9.3.2-1_i486linux_enu.rpm from adobe-linux-i386: [Errno 256] No
> more mirrors to try.

Try again? Tell Adobe? Adobe's repo is known for not giving fast/reliable
access. Still it managed to download fine in ~8 minutes here.

> The package doesn't seem to fit with my system.  For now I ran update as
> follows:
> 
> 	yum update --exclude=AdobeReader_enu
> 
> and that seems to get things going again.
> 
> It also showed the following for the package size
> AdobeReader_enu                   i486 9.3.2-1   adobe-linux-i386 61 M
> 
> which seems quite large for adobe.

The executable alone is 24 M uncompressed. The package contains lots
of shared libraries and additional files and is 144 M uncompressed.