On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 09:12 +0000, Irving, Dave wrote: > Im trying to install some Fedora Extras... > I've followed the instructions > (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/EXTRAS) to > add [extras] to my /etc/yum.repos.d dir What did you call the file you put in /etc/yum.repos.d? It needs to end in ".repo" > and I've imported the > Fedora-Extras RPM GPG Key in to my rpm database like this: > > rpm --import > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fe > dora-Extras > > The rpm bit seemed to work..... > When I connect to the internet, I need to use a proxy server.. For rpm > this was fine (I just used --proxyhost x --proxyport y). > For yum, I've read that I need to have $http_proxy exported... I've done > this. > So, time to download a package... Im trying to get gnome_phone_manager > to work, and from the instructions Im following > (http://hem.bredband.net/miko22/INSTALL.html), I need to get hold of > libsigc++-devel. > I gave this a try: > > yum -t --enablerepo=extras install gnome-bluetooth libsigc++-devel > > The result? A load of python errors: > > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 299, in > _doFileRepo > doRepoSection(self, repoconf, section) > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 313, in > doRepoSection > mirrorurls = getMirrorList(mirrorlist) > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 390, in > getMirrorList > fo = urlresolver.urlopen(url) > [snip] > TypeError: iterable argument required > > So now Im lost... Can anyone help with what I might be doing wrong? Which version of yum are you using? $ rpm -q yum If you followed the instructions at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/EXTRAS then the extras repo is enabled by default and you don't need -- enablerepo=extras If you move the extras.repo file (whatever you called it) out of the /etc/yum.repos.d directory, does yum still crash? If you do "man yum.conf" you'll see that there's now (in yum 2.2.0) a way of specifying proxies in your /etc/yum.conf file so you don't need the environment variables. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
