Up2date problem

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 25 15:48:57 UTC 2005


Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:35:39 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote:
>>
>>>well, i don't use a proxy at the moment,
>>>this is a direct connection
>>>should i use a proxy to solve it or what ?
>>
>>Can you retrieve either of the following files using your regular browser?
>>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3
>>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
>>
>>These are what up2date appears to be having problems with.
>>
>>I only asked about the proxy because I thought you might be behind a
>>firewall that was blocking your attempted connection to fedora.redhat.com.
>>
> 
> 
> well, i tried to access the two links from the web browser and they
> worked with no problems at all.
> i still don't see the reason prventing the update

Neither do I; could you try:
# up2date-nox --list

and if that fails, you could always give yum a try:
# yum check-update
and if that works:
# yum update

Paul.




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