Trying to install csh; problem with yum

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Sep 17 20:37:49 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 19:29 +0530, Neelanjana Sengupta wrote:
> Hi Fedora experts,
> 
> I have installed Fedora (v8) into my machine which has Intel Core 2
> Duo. I need to install the csh into /usr/bin, and I tried:
> 
> "yum install csh", and ended up with this error message:
> 
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x86_64 error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
> resolution')>
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again
> 
> Trying again did not help. In fact, I get the same error message in
> trying any kind of yum (eg., yum update, and su -c 'yum install
> xchat').
> 
> Could you please help me with this?
> Thank you and regards,
> Neelanjana Sengupta
I don't know right now where your error comes from but csh is in /bin
not /usr/bin and should be already installed.
> 
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