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Yeah, steves right! i didnt notice the exact error. i shouldnt have sent
this email that way. my bad!
BTW steve i didnt notice the error correctly. but it did work for me
after setting the yum configuration right!
steve wrote:
Hi,
On 10/05/2009 12:23 PM, Jose Mathew Manimala wrote:
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> # if necessary, delete the region db's...
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> rm /var/lib/rpm/__*db
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NO, NO, NO, dear God NO !! This is almost *never* a good idea. This is
usually recommended if things go horribly wrong with the rpm DB (which
is not even the case here !)
If you are not sure about your answers, please at least refrain from
giving arbitrary random bad advice !
>> i m new to fedora linux.i have downloaded fedora 12 alpha and installed
>> on my laptop.
>>
>> when i tring to update from Internet i m getting fallowing error
>> .kindly
>> do the needful.
>>
>> " [root@localhost ~]# yum install updates
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
>> InstallMedia. Please verify its path and try again"
>>
The error message says it all:
a. yum cannot retrieve the repository metadata that it needs
b. this happened when it was trying to retrieve the metadata from the
repository 'InstallMedia'
c. it further suggests that you verify the path of the InstallMedia
repository and try again.
Now, since you are new to Fedora, here is what you can do:
a. Try using Fedora 11 instead of Fedora 12 alpha -- the 'alpha' implies
that the release is still under development and you should expect things
to break and you should know enough about how Fedora works to be able to
deal with the breakage.
b. If you still want to continue using Fedora 12, disable/edit the
InstallMedia repository and also add the fedora online repositories (if
they don't exist) to your yum conf. How exactly that is to be done, is
left to you (or any others who wish to answer). Explore, play around and
ask better questions[1] if you still don't get too far.
cheers,
- steve
[1]
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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