Fedora - Software question - Help needed
When I select Applications > Add/Remove Software, I always get the following error,
Unable to retrieve software information in the form of a pop up box and I say OK, I'm back to the desktop. I'm unable to add or remove software in my Fedora. WHY is this? Please anyone help me! I have Fedora core 5 along with Windows on my system. |
It could mean that it is unable to connect to the repositories--is your internet connection working?
Also, check to see what repositories are enabled. On my FC7 install, this is in /etc/yum.repos.d |
I don't have internet
Why do I need to connect to the repositories when I want to install a new software. By the way, I don't have any internet connection.
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I am sorry to tell you that pirut uses yum. so you need to change you /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
to I used kwrite to edit mine. I have restored it like 5 times after that.:) Code:
baseurl=file:///media/cdrom/ |
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I'm not understanding what you are trying to say. Can you please elaborate that clearly??
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What almost000 is saying is that by default, Linux expects to update from the latest version across the internet.
If you want to get Sw from your CD, alter your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo file as per his example, so it'll look on the CD drive instead. |
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Okay, what if I have the same problem and I do have a working internet connection?
I've installed Fedora 7 on a VMware virtual machine running under XP SP 2. I'm unsuccessful adding or removing applications. I am a DHCP client, and I'm successfully pulling an IP address and DNS adresses from the company's DHCP server. I've configured the proxy settings as follows: In Fedora, I clicked on System, Preferences, Internet and Network, Network Proxy. For HTTP Proxy and Secure HTTP Proxy, I entered the name of our proxy server and the port using the same entries I use successfully for FF and IE on my XP system. In Details, I entered my Windows domain username in both with and without a preceding ' domain\ '. It doesn't seem to make any difference. These are the only changes I've made since the installation. I installed Fedora from an F-7-i386-DVD.iso file. When I attempt to run Applications / Add/Remove Software, it appears the application is looking at the Internet instead of the .iso. I get at Retrieving Software Information window with a progress bar that doesn't got past 20% or so. Eventually I get the error "Unable to retrieve software information. This could be caused by not having a network connection available." I remember from my previous attempts with FC5 that the Add/Remove wants to look at an Internet repository for software. (I was hoping F7 would look to the installation source before hitting the net, but apparently this isn't the case.) I suspect the proxy settings are also causing the problem with Add/Remove. |
Have you tried almost000's suggestion ie amend repo file to look at your CD/DVD drive?
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Not yet
Not yet, for a couple of reasons.
I've got an internet connection, so I'd like to make it work. I don't know what 'pirut' or 'yum' are, so I didn't realize his message applied to my problem. I'll try it, but I'd still like to know what I'm doing wrong with the proxy server settings. Thanks. |
yum is a cmd line sw installer/updater/remover. Need to run as root.
Cmd line approach may give you more detailed error msgs, also see /var/log eg /var/log/messages. I recommend using tail -f /var/log/messages in an x-term, then try again and see what msgs occur and post them. Also, is there a logfile in VMWare or XP you can check? If the CD/DVD drive method works, that'll definitely remove one possibiblity of error, although I agree it sounds like a Network issue. I don't know if you can do that update from within VMWare, maybe there's a setting that needs fixing. |
Apparently the correct command to mount the .ISO is
mount /dev/cdrom-sr1 /mnt Since that lets me see the contents listed under /mnt. Based on that, what should the baseurl line look like? I've tried baseurl=file:///mnt and baseurl=file:///dev/cdrom-sr1 but both result in the good old "Unable to retrieve software information" error for "Add/Remove Software". I'm also still looking for what I have to do to get "Add/Remove" and "Software Updater" to access the Internet from behind my corporate firewall. Thanks. |
pirut
Pirut is Add/Remove Programs. yum is Yellowdog Updater Modified. I don't know how to fix what you have wrong now. I like using the terminal to load apps its faster for me.
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