On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, BFD wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > >On Monday 17 November 2003 21:10, BFD wrote: > > > >>hen trying to install yum on my Fedora system this is what I get > >> > >>$ rpm -ivh yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm > >>yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest): ... > >A) where did you download that file from, ... > first, from > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ The web download and the disc versions look exactly the same to me. $ md5sum /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm /tmp/yum* dd4249018c1674b73e9ddab08828303f /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm dd4249018c1674b73e9ddab08828303f /tmp/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm $ sum /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm /tmp/yum* 29472 127 /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 29472 127 /tmp/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm Did you save the bad file. If so how does it compare with the above and with the version on your disc. By chance does the file contain something like an HTML message that says try later? Look at the bad file with 'file' and with 'less'. I did notice that mozilla on RH-9.0 had trouble rendering the page for me which is why I am posting this.
