Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:45 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> david walcroft wrote:
>> > [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all
>> > Cleaning up Everything
>> > [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer
>> > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
>> > baseurl=ftp://reddwarf:4skin46@premium.planetmirror.com <mailto:skin46 at premium.planetmirror.com>/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/
>> > 
>> > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
>> > failovermethod=priority
>> > http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> > [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>> > Trying other mirror.
>> > updates-released                                                 26 kB
>> > 00:00
>> > http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> > [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged
>> > repomd.xml file
>> > Trying other mirror.
>> > updates-released          100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
>> > primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
>> > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
>> > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 <http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386>
>> > 
>> > base                      100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00
>> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> > [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file
>> > Trying other mirror.
>> > base                      100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
>> > primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
>> > Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>> > Finished
>> > Setting up Install Process
>> > Parsing package install arguments
>> > No package system-config-printer available.
>>
>> This is a problem.  If you cannot find it, there is something wrong with
>> your fedora repo configuration.  In fact, it hasn't been called "base"
>> for a while now.  It should be called "fedora".
>>     
> ----
> good catch...his URL for 'updates-released' (which should be fedora) 
> points to an ftp with a login and password and it doesn't work.
>
> another URL for updates uses 'core' which clearly won't work.
>
> his URL for 'base' is clearly from an old Fedora because the folder is 
> now called 'Packages' and not 'Fedora'
>
> OK David...here's what you do. (you can probably just paste this all 
> into a terminal)
>
> su - # get root
> cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
> mkdir old-repos
> mv fedora* old-repos
> rpm -ivh --replacepkgs \
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
> yum update
> yum install system-config-printer
>
> This should get your repos back in order (whatever you did to the 
> configuration I don't know)
>
> Craig 
Craig I do appreciate what you are doing for me ,as I suffer with 
Bipolar disorder I tend to stress out
and can miss things through loss of concentration.

  Thanks david