Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

[Kam Leo]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>
> Recently did a fresh install of F10. All updates (a boatload of them!)
> as of yesterday.  Disabled IPv6 (in modprobe.conf) Disabled ip6tables
> (chkconfig) and rebooted.  The ipv6 module is not loaded.
>
> Nonetheless, like some others on the list I am getting this error from
> yum after installing the rpmfusion repos:
>
> [root at neuron ~]# yum  update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-10&arch=i386 error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-nonfree-updates. Please verify its path and try again
>
> These repos were installed using the command suggested by Kevin Kempter:
>
> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
>
> which installed just fine.
>
> In fact:
>
> [root at neuron ~]# rpm -qa | fgrep rpmfus
> rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-6.noarch
> rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch
>
> I can get to the metadata file "repomd.xml" just fine by plugging the
> URL from the rpmfusion repo into Firefox, but try as I might, yum
> refuses to go there or work at all unless I disable the rpmfusion
> repos.
>
> Can anyone help me (other some others) fix this?
> Thanks
>
> Dean

Try using the main rpmfusion server. Edit the rpmfusion repo files in
/etc/yum.repos.d directory, enable the baserul (i.e. remove the "#"
character), and disable the mirrorlist (i.e place a "#" at beginning
of line).