Updates SOLVED!

[Jim Cornette]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>> You have to change the $ARCH part of the link to whatever Architecture 
>> you are running. ppc,i386 or whatever arch you are using.
>>
>>
> OK. I didn't do that but with i386 there it is identical to what's 
> there. I know have 2 mirrors to check and both error out when they 
> appear to stop getting much past 2.5 mb of the total 7.7 mb required. 
> Odd because I manually d/l the darn thing and it IS 7.7 Mb.
> 
> Seems I need to figure out what is causing this problem.
> 
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
You might try wget to download it. I did and was surprised how quick the 
mirror downloaded the file.

wget and the long url are on one line. The length of the url split the line.

wget 
http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms/RPMS/vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm

--18:19:05-- 
http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms/RPMS/vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm
            => `vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm'
Resolving ayo.ie.freshrpms.net... 193.1.193.67
Connecting to ayo.ie.freshrpms.net|193.1.193.67|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8,025,139 (7.7M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]

100%[====================================>] 8,025,139    832.20K/s 
ETA 00:00

18:19:18 (610.58 KB/s) - `vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm' saved [8025139/8025139]