On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:48 PM, g <[email protected]> wrote: > greetings, > > i am still having problems getting my head in to operations of yum > am need help with updating and setting up repos list. > > system specifics: > > +++ > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > Scientific Linux SL release 5.4 (Boron) > > $ uname -a > Linux 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 30 11:47:33 EDT 2010 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > +++ > > i have 2 installs of sl5.4, minimal on hda1 for internet [using now], > and more filled on hdb10 for personal accounting, and electronic design. > > when i tried to update recently, i ran into similar problems, in that > both bomb due to incorrectness of repo settings. > > on hda1; > > # yum update > Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter-data, > : kernel-module, keys, kmod, list-data, merge-conf, priorities, > : protect-packages, protectbase, refresh-updatesd, rhnplugin, > : security, tmprepo, tsflags, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock > This system is not registered with RHN. > RHN support will be disabled. > Determining fastest mirrors > Could not retrieve mirrorlist \ > http://mirrors.redhat.com/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386/ error was > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> > * sl-base: ftp1.scientificlinux.org > * sl-security: ftp1.scientificlinux.org > adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00 > adobe-linux-i386/primary | 12 kB 00:00 > adobe-linux-i386 > 18/18 > http://download.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] \ > IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> > Trying other mirror. > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for \ > repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
First of all, you seem to have rhn-related packages on your system. Try finding them by: rpm -qa | grep rhn and remove them all. Second, you are getting some errors with the epel repo. I suggest you reinstall it. Finally, the following command will display all the repos: yum repolist all Akemi
