On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Recently installed Fedora 14 in a Desktop when i logged in i found that
> OpenOffice package was missing. May be i might have missed while
> customizing
> it.
>
> I have Fedora 14 DVD sponsored by LinuXpert Systems (Mr. Baskar Selvaraj)
> which consists of Packages directory in it with OpenOffice packages.
>
> I tried installing by double clicking on the rpm package files in the DVD
> but there are dependencies.
>
> So i tried to manually configure the repository using an *Vi* editor to the
> file    */etc/yum.repos.d/fedora ...*(dont remember the file name excatly)
>
> After changing the baseurl to DVD path when i try to use
>
> *yum groupinstall openoffice.org-**
>
> i get following error message:
>
> " Cannot retrieve MetaData file (repomd.xml) . Check its path and try
> again.
> "
>

Install these two rpms..

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm



>
> When i opened the " repomd.xml " file it was empty.
>
> Can you please provide me in step-by-step how to configure the Repository
> of
> the Yum installer and to install all the OpenOffice Packages without
> Dependencies?
>
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