[K12OSN] 5.0 EL repos dead/outdated?

Eric Harrison eharrison at mesd.k12.or.us
Wed Apr 16 21:58:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
>   Still wrangling with my yum problems on my new install of 5 EL K12LTSP. I
>  am thinking now it is possibly a firewall problem. I have done many
>  installs of K12LTSP from here at school with no problems behind our
>  firewall. Yesterday I did try and add in the Network Proxy setting of our
>  school's firewall( which I have never had to do in the past) in
>  preferences. This did not help any. WHen I try and yum install ( from a
>  terminal) the rpm tries to download but I always get " Header not
>  complete" I've heard of these in serveral posts,but do not really know
>  how to troubleshoot it?  I can of course download rpms manually but I am
>  trying to install vlc, and there are dependencies as long as your arm to
>  get this to install!Should I be able to telnet on port whatever to say
>  mesd/k12ltsp download site to see if i get a response? Anyone have any
>  ideas?
>
>  Tahnks,
>
>  Barry Cisna
>

You may want to try changing the repos to point to ftp rather than http.

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/k12ltsp.repo

and change:

     mirrorlist=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-5.0EL-$basearch

to:

    baseurl=ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-$basearch


-Eric




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