Error installing any program using yum

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Richard Cahilig <r.cahilig at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Cahilig <r.cahilig at gmail.com>
> Subject: Error installing any program using yum
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:58 PM
> Hi,
> 
> I have problem in my newly installed fedora 12. I got this
> error every time I tried to install anything via yum:
> 
> 
> [root at localhost User]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
> 
> 
> Below is the contents of my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
> 
> [snip]


Try turning off (or lowering its protection) SELinux.  On my initial install of F12, I had to turn it off to update, and configure several things.  Over the years SELinux has caused me so many problems, that I either don't install it, uninstall it or turn it off.


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