Marc Siegel said: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os//headers/header.info... > There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service > not known')> can you use wget to download something after exporting $http_proxy? also, why not use yum? it always worked with me when i used $http_proxy -d -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot