Yum install anomaly and yum config question

[Gerry Tool]

Gerry Tool wrote:

> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>> 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
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>>> 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
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>> "For yum >= 2.1.3, new yum repository style (metadata):"
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>> on the livna.org site.
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>> 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
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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