[K12OSN] 5.0 EL repos dead/outdated?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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