Fedora-Extras

[Paul Howarth]

jerryw4386 at netscape.net wrote:
> Hi could someone please tell me what iam doing wrong ?
> I have added this attachment to my yum repo.d dir.
> and named it fedora-extras.repo as i have read on the web to do.
> And from here i get lost because i can not find the right command to have yum get the files for me, I am real new to yum and all i know how to do is have yum update my system. I have did the rpm --import of the gpgkey i think heck i am not even sure of that,i did the rpm import and watched my dsl lights blink like it was doing something.
> When i do yum update it says this, [bad repository file///etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo skipped],then goes on with the update of system.
> I know that this list is very helpfull with other pressing problems other than this one, but i have been working on this for guite sometime and just cannot get the extras!!
> You may help me and some other person out there that does not know how to do this.
> I would be very gratefull for any help, THANKS 

You included commentary text at the top of the file, and mis-typed 
"baseurl".

I have attached a fixed fedora-extras.repo file.

Paul.
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