Up2date problem

[Ahmed Abdel-Aliem]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:48:57 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 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.


well, i tried yum but i didn't get anything at all
not even error messages



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