-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> [ ...snip... ] >> # 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkrLk80ACgkQ68U/vco3DlLKpgCeNg9jOYCeZgUlVuV14US4MaqP YLEAnjVBmefIiXItBlbWD0yxA7wGRCJ7 =dPdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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