Corrupted Repo?.....

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/13/2012 10:29 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> Hello all, I have been having a problem recently with getting any kind of package or application using yum here's what I get whenever I try to "get" something from the internet using yum:
> /
> //orion at ORION-2015 ~$ sudo yum list all//
> //[sudo] password for orion: //
> //Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache//
> //http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml//
> //Trying other mirror.//
> //Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from Google: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.//
> //orion at ORION-2015 ~$ sudo spt-get repo//
> //[sudo] password for orion: //
> //sudo: spt-get: command not found//
> //orion at ORION-2015 ~$ yum update//
> //Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache//
> //You need to be root to perform this command.//
> //orion at ORION-2015 ~$ su//
> //Password: //
> //root at ORION-2015 orion# yum install update//
> //Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache//
> //http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml//
> //Trying other mirror.//
> //Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from Google: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.//
> //root at ORION-2015 orion# yum getupdate2-123//
> //Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache//
> //No such command: getupdate. Please use /usr/bin/yum --help//
> //root at ORION-2015 orion# yum update allevery//
> //Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, tidy-cache//
> //http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml//
> //Trying other mirror.//
> //Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from Google: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.//
> //root at ORION-2015 orion# /
>
> Is there a way to change where my yum "looks" for its software needs? And mind you I know some of the commands in the above example don't exist or are just garbage, but this is what I see even when I type in "valid" commands.....can anyone help?
>
>

That URL for a google repository doesn't look right....  Where did you get it?

The ones I have for Chrome and Google-Earth are....

http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
and
http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml


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