Yum is not an .rpm package error message

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:23, BFD wrote:
> For the file from my Fedora cd:
>
> $md5sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> dd4249018c1674b73e9ddab08828303f  yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> $sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> 29472   127
>
> For the file I downloaded
> $md5sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> 8a82c3f05fca0a615d1765394376f809  yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> $sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> 47550   127

Try actually using "file" on the file.  A file extension is by no means 
an indication as to what the file actually is.

eg:

[root at petra root]# echo "I am not an RPM" > myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm
[root at petra root]# rpm -ivh myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm
error: myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm cannot be installed
[root at petra root]# file myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm
myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm: ASCII text

My guess is that you got a 404 page when you downloaded the file, but 
it's html content in a file named foo.rpm.

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