[K12OSN] Fl_TeacherTool 0.21 Released

[Eric Harrison]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Kjetil Knudsen wrote:
>>
>> Kjetil Knudsen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Nope. That did not  do it. Yum works great. But It can not find
>>> any mirrors when trying to install fltk..
>>>
>>> Kjetil Knudsen
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Something must be broken with your yum config, the fltk package is
>> included in two different repositories, k12ltsp and extras.
>>
>> What do you see when you run "yum list fltk"? If you have fltk 1.1.4
>> installed, it should look something like this:
>>
>>
>> # yum list fltk
>> Setting up repositories
>> k12ltsp                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB  00:00
>> webmin                    100% |=========================|  951 B  00:00
>> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB  00:00
>> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB  00:00
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> Installed Packages
>> fltk.i386                                1.1.4-10.fc4          installed
>> Available Packages
>> fltk.i386                                1.1.6-1.fc4           k12ltsp
>>
>>
>>
>> -Eric
>
> Yes, it looks like this:
> Setting up repositories
> k12ltsp                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> webmin                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 413 kB    00:01
> updates-re: ################################################## 1146/1146
> Added 340 new packages, deleted 200 old in 3.54 seconds
> Installed Packages
> fltk.i386                                1.1.4-9                installed
> Available Packages
> fltk.i386                                1.1.6-1.fc4            k12ltsp
>
> All of our four K12 servers report the same problem. When "yum install fltk" I get this error:
> Content-Length: 263
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> X-Cache: MISS from cache.censornet.local
> Proxy-Connection: close
> Trying other mirror.
> fltk-fluid-1.1.6-1.fc4.i386.rpm                                 8.0 kB 00:00
> http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/RPMS/updates/fltk-fluid-1.1.6-1.fc4.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: RPMS/updates/fltk-fluid-1.1.6-1.fc4.i386.rpm from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
> It looks perhaps like the problem is related to our proxy-server.. I will try to yum without the proxy. Thanks for all your help...
>
> Kjetil Knudsen


Yes, it is likely a problem with your proxy.

Since the fltk packages are in more than repository, a quick-and-dirty
work around is to disable the repository that is giving you problems:

 	yum --disablerepo=extras install fltk


-Eric