FC11 missing dependencies on a new install

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Nov 1 00:20:55 UTC 2009


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:28:02 -0400, Robert wrote:
>
>   
>>> And I went to: 
>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/ 
>>> where I got the content of my local repo (actually one level higher), 
>>> and it is not there either...
>>>       
>
> Wrong repo. It's a base repo that can be used to install Fedora 11,
> but it doesn't contain "Everything" (which is especially important,
> because Updates may depend on arbitrary base packages).
>   

Oh.
>   
>> So since there are only a couple of packages I needed from base, I 
>> changed my fedora.repo file to point to the public repo, and it looks 
>> like it found python-nose and the other missing dependencies.
>>
>> Now the question is why they are missing from mirrors.kernel.org where I 
>> got my copy from....
>>     
>
> You want this repo (the full base repo):
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/

Thank you. I am rsyncing to this now. I tried to install gconf-editor so 
I can right-click to open a terminal window, and no gconf-editor and no 
system-config-display. So I am hoping this will pick them up!





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