Hi,
On 10/05/2009 12:23 PM, Jose Mathew Manimala wrote:
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# if necessary, delete the region db's...
rm /var/lib/rpm/__*db
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.
" [r...@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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