On 10/07/2015 11:14 AM, Shane wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Fedora18 x86_64. (Yes, it's old.) Within the last few days I found
that I cannot install or list anything from the fedora-18 repo via yum. I get the typical
errors everybody complains about "no repomd" and "metalink.xml does not
exist". Common workarounds from google searches haven't worked.
I opened the link spit out by yum
"http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-18&arch=x86_64" in a
browser. It downloaded a metalink file (no .xml suffix). The 3rd (or so) line of the
file has the following dubious message.
# repo = fedora-18 arch = x86_64 error: invalid repo or arch
Following this line is a HUGE listing of available repos and architectures. There is
nothing shown for fedora-18 arch i386 or x86_64. In fact, even fedora-source-18 repo is
missing. I don't think this is a yum problem on my system.
Is there something else I can try (yum-wise)? If I need to report it then where?
I'm quite certain that this is the wrong list.
Nothing. F18 was EOL a long time ago. Updates via yum aren't available.
If you need something from the last time things were updated you need to find them and
download them manually from
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/18/x86... and
you'll need to resolve the dependencies yourself. (Insert the normal advice about
running old, outdated, and not security patched software here)
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