Yum install anomaly and yum config question
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 10 02:12:05 UTC 2004
Gerry Tool wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
>> Am Mi, den 10.11.2004 schrieb Gerry Tool um 1:24:
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>>> Question: How can I add .repo files to /etc/yum.repo.d to access
>>> the livna and Fedora US repositories with the new yum? I tried
>>> copying a section of the FC2 yum.conf file into a file and placing
>>> it in the directory, but it failed with
>>>
>>> Trying other mirror.
>>> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora-stable
>>> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from fedora-stable: [Errno 256] No more
>>> mirrors to try.
>>>
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>>> Gerry Tool
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>> The fedora.us Fedora Extras repository is actually empty. See yourself
>> on the server with a browser. rpm.livna.org has FC3 repositories
>> (packages). How to add to yum is described at
>>
>> "For yum >= 2.1.3, new yum repository style (metadata):"
>>
>> on the livna.org site.
>>
>> Alexander
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> Thanks - that got the livna repository working. However, it says
> No Match for argument mplayer
> Nothing to do
>
> Guess I'll inquire further.
>
> Gerry
>
I did a 'yum list available' and see that installing mplayer failed
because the livna repository has just
mplayer-fonts.noarch 1.0-0.lvn.2.3
livna-stable
mplayerplug-in.i386 2.50-0.lvn.2.3
livna-stable
and no mplayer package. Is this a temporary situation, I wonder?
Gerry
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