Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote: > Herschel wrote: > > >"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name > >selected] ... > >The message was: > > >An HTTP error occurred: > >URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations] > >Status Code: 404 > >Error Message: Not Found" > > > Are you using YUM? If not, try as root: > > # yum update No, so far just using the auto update, which seemed very similar to my experience on Mandrake - except it has now seemed to fail consistently for me for two days running. I am going to search for the syntax to attempt a small update on a single package to see if that works first. > > Even if this fails to complete all the way, after a couple of runs it > should have managed to pull all the new packages into the local cache. > Once that's done, it will complete the update as usual. [Please expain, what you mean by completing the update "as usual", is this a make install step?] This may have happened on the kernel, because I saw a message that somehow the kernel was up to date. The kernel utilities fail saying it cannot find selinux-policy-targeted-1.17... Then I moved on to try single packages. > > This is of course assuming that it's not always stopping due to a single > package that it can't seem to locate .. It seems to be an appropriate single package for the application I am trying to update. That does not seem to be a precise match to your possible worry. > > Once the update is complete, you should issue (as root) > > # yum clean packages > > To free up the space taken up by the downloaded packes in cache. > > >I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the > >kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard > >too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I > >am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me > >this grief? > > > HTH Well, if that's all I have to do - it should help. I will let you know, thanks!! > > >TIA > > > M
