Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
Herschel wrote:
>"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name
>selected] ...
>The message was:
>An HTTP error occurred:
>URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations]
>Status Code: 404
>Error Message: Not Found"
Are you using YUM? If not, try as root:
# yum update
No, so far just using the auto update, which seemed very similar to my
experience on Mandrake - except it has now seemed to fail consistently
for me for two days running.
I am going to search for the syntax to attempt a small update on a
single package to see if that works first.
Even if this fails to complete all the way, after a couple of runs it
should have managed to pull all the new packages into the local cache.
Once that's done, it will complete the update as usual.
[Please expain, what you mean by completing the update "as usual", is
this a make install step?]
This may have happened on the kernel, because I saw a message that
somehow the kernel was up to date. The kernel utilities fail saying it
cannot find selinux-policy-targeted-1.17... Then I moved on to try
single packages.
This is of course assuming that it's not always stopping due to a single
package that it can't seem to locate ..
It seems to be an appropriate single package for the application I am
trying to update. That does not seem to be a precise match to your
possible worry.
Once the update is complete, you should issue (as root)
# yum clean packages
To free up the space taken up by the downloaded packes in cache.
>I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the
>kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard
>too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I
>am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me
>this grief?
HTH
Well, if that's all I have to do - it should help. I will let you know,
thanks!!
>TIA
M