On Wednesday 23 June 2004 21:43, Jim Cornette wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 19:09, fred vachon wrote: >>>You might try using one of the mirrors in yum.conf rather than the >>>main Fedora download server. It might be having some problems. I >>>had similiar problem today trying to use yum which had been fine >>> in the past. I switched to one of the mirrors and was fine. You >>> can find the mirrors at >>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html >> >> I commented the fedora.redhat.com url line out, then reconstructed >> it with about 4 of the other east coast addresses but wasn't able >> to make yum talk to any of them. I finally grabbed the updates >> with konqi and installed them with rpm. >> >> Can someone post the full line that would be added to make it work >> with the duke (or ibiblio) http server? Maybe I fubared it >> somehow. > >http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/ >2/i386/os/ Unforch, this is fedora core 1, and ibiblio has no headers dirs in either tree, or at least none that mozilla can see. >As an example. What you are looking for is a directory which > contains a header directory that is wothin your archetecture. > >Browse with your favorite browser. Then copy the link for chosen > mirror and directory which contains the header. > >As root, open up your /etc/yum.conf file with your chosen editor. > Paste the link into the file and edit to be in line with the > examples within the yum.conf file. > >For updates, you might use this link for a reference. > >http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/ >updates/2/i386/ > >I use up2date with yum repos. The settings are pretty similar and > each file contains examples for repos. > >I hope this helps, > >Jim > >-- >You are confused; but this is your normal state. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
