----david walcroft wrote: > [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all > Cleaning up Everything > [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - > baseurl=ftp://reddwarf:4skin46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/ > > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - > failovermethod=priority > http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > updates-released 26 kB > 00:00 > http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged > repomd.xml file > Trying other mirror. > updates-released 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00 > primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 914 kB 00:01 > YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 > > base 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00 > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file > Trying other mirror. > base 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00 > primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 914 kB 00:01 > Excluding Packages in global exclude list > Finished > Setting up Install Process > Parsing package install arguments > No package system-config-printer available. This is a problem. If you cannot find it, there is something wrong with your fedora repo configuration. In fact, it hasn't been called "base" for a while now. It should be called "fedora".
good catch...his URL for 'updates-released' (which should be fedora) points to an ftp with a login and password and it doesn't work.
another URL for updates uses 'core' which clearly won't work.
his URL for 'base' is clearly from an old Fedora because the folder is now called 'Packages' and not 'Fedora'
OK David...here's what you do. (you can probably just paste this all into a terminal)
su - # get root
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
mkdir old-repos
mv fedora* old-repos
rpm -ivh --replacepkgs \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install system-config-printer
This should get your repos back in order (whatever you did to the configuration I don't know)
Craig
