On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:58 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 08:33: > > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:19 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > >>>> Baseurl(s) for repo: > >>>> ['http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4 /i386/os/'] > >>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repom > >>>> d.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or > >>>> directory')> > >>>> Trying other mirror. > >>>> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base > >>>> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors > >>>> to try. > >>>> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more > >>>> mirrors to try. ... > > Trying typing "env" immediately before running yum (i.e. as root) and > > see if there are any environment settings with names including "proxy". > > > > Paul. > > > > > Paul > > no proxy at env command!!! > And Synaptic is running o.k. Does: wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml (that's one line) create a repomd.xml file in your current directory on this machine? $ wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml--08:07:38-- http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml => `repomd.xml' Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com... 66.187.224.20, 209.132.176.20, 209.132.176.220, ... Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|66.187.224.20|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,140 (1.1K) [text/xml] 100%[===============================================================>] 1,140 --.--K/s 08:07:39 (8.93 KB/s) - `repomd.xml' saved [1140/1140] Paul.