On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 12:36 -0600, Joe Chaves wrote: > I am unable to install pidgin in RHEL 5.3, I am using theadd/remove > software application and it fails with the repo error message below: > > "Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > pidgin-source. Please verify its path and try again"
> [pidgin-source] > name=Pidgin for RHEL/CentOS $releasever - $basearch - Source > baseurl=http://rpm.pidgin.im/SRPMS/ > enabled=0 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=http://rpm.pidgin.im/RPM-GPG-KEY-pidgin > [pidgin-source] > name=Pidgin for RHEL/CentOS 5Server - i386 - Source > baseurl=http://rpm.pidgin.im/SRPMS/ > enabled=0 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=http://rpm.pidgin.im/RPM-GPG-KEY-pidgin Neither of these have the pidgin-source repo enabled (enabled=0), so yum is getting a different definition of pidgin-source from somewhere else, and it is that repo that is failing. Check what other files you have in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (or even in /etc/yum.conf) define a pidgin-source repo and remove the conflicting repo(s). Regards, Stu. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
