On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:45, William Hooper wrote: > Chadley Wilson said: > > > It is a corporate firewall and ftp access is denied > > By default up2date and yum use http, not ftp. I know that whats so scary! > > > but for some reason > > UP2date just hangs when I run it > > Hangs where? Just after the UP2date Channels window, you get packages flagged to be skipped, with a progress dialog box It says it is fetching [mirrorname/releases] underneath that is says [fedora-core-1/headers/headers.info] and stays there forever, once I left it for a day it never budged. Tried a few different mirrors from fedora.redhat.com with no change. > > > and I have tried apt and yum but I have > > no clue as to what I am doing there I just get errors relating to > > packages I Try downloading. > > What errors? Are you using a mirror? Dont have it installed anymore but lets tackle UP2Date first. > > nothing works for me I assume it is our > > firewall. > > If you can browse the web I highly doubt it is your firewall. Oh, then I have to find out why it wont work! Could you help me please? > > -- > William Hooper >
