YumEx problem

[Tim Lauridsen]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:00 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Although using linux for a long time, I'm new to Fedora Core.
> 
> Yum is working without problems, but yumex appears to be broken on my 
> installation.  This is FC4, with all updates applied.  When I open 
> yumex it appears to go into an endless loop,initializing repositories, 
> citing filelists.xml.gz.
> 
> Advice, please?

1. Try installing the latest yumex devel from fedora-Extras. 
(You will need to install yum 2.5.x from development)

2. Disable 'Filelist & Changelog' from preferences

3. Enable 'Best' Mirror detection in preferences.

4. Enable 'Debug Mode' in Preferences to get more output.

Tim