Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

Dean S. Messing deanm at sharplabs.com
Fri Dec 5 06:22:54 UTC 2008


Kam Leo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
<snip>
> > 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
<snip>
> > Can anyone help me (other some others) fix this?
>
> 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).

Thanks.
I did that before I wrote to the list.  Didn't help.
Other suggestions?




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