[SOLVED] Help Me!!

Sanju22 · 06-17-2011, 04:39 AM

I have some 5 files in that path.
And, I'm using Fedora 8.
Plz, gimme the link for Fedora 8.

Sayan Acharjee · 06-17-2011, 04:53 AM

What is the output of

#rpm -qa gedit

If it doesn't give any output, then gedit is obviously not there.which I think is the case from your previous posts.

Create new repo file to use yum in /etc/yum.repos.d and try again as colucix said.

If still that diesn't work, I'd suggest you to download the respective rpm and install it.

colucix · 06-17-2011, 04:53 AM

Fedora 8 has been dismissed long time ago. Maybe the problem is that your repositories don't point to the right place anymore. If you have 5 files in /etc/yum.repos.d, you have to edit them to point to the proper location. Try to edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and change the first baseurl to

Code:

baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Fedora/$basearch/os/

Most likely you have to uncomment the baseurl line and comment the mirrorlist line.

TobiSGD · 06-17-2011, 05:04 AM

I would not recommend to run Fedora 8 at all. It is unsupported for a long time, you will not get any security updates and bugfixes and will run into serious problems when trying to run newer software on it.
Go for a recent version or, if you want something with longer support, try CentOS or Scientific Linux, both are Red Hat-based and have a much longer support cycle.

Sanju22 · 06-17-2011, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sayan Acharjee

What is the output of

#rpm -qa gedit

If it doesn't give any output, then gedit is obviously not there.which I think is the case from your previous posts.

Create new repo file to use yum in /etc/yum.repos.d and try again as colucix said.

If still that diesn't work, I'd suggest you to download the respective rpm and install it.

It didn't give any output. Would you mind giving me the respectiv link from where I can download the package?

Sanju22 · 06-17-2011, 05:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

Fedora 8 has been dismissed long time ago. Maybe the problem is that your repositories don't point to the right place anymore. If you have 5 files in /etc/yum.repos.d, you have to edit them to point to the proper location. Try to edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and change the first baseurl to

Code:

baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Fedora/$basearch/os/

Most likely you have to uncomment the baseurl line and comment the mirrorlist line.

I'm a real beginner. I did copy-pasted wat you said. It showed no difference

Snark1994 · 06-17-2011, 05:21 AM

Ah, duplicate thread of http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...66#post4388366

EDIT: oops, sorry, meant to do this the other way round... Will report other thread

Sayan Acharjee · 06-17-2011, 05:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sanju22

It didn't give any output. Would you mind giving me the respectiv link from where I can download the package?

Try the following link,

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html

Here you'll get the gedit rpm's for Fedora 8. It may give some dependency error while installing, if so install the dependencies and then try again.

Sanju22 · 06-17-2011, 05:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

Fedora 8 has been dismissed long time ago. Maybe the problem is that your repositories don't point to the right place anymore. If you have 5 files in /etc/yum.repos.d, you have to edit them to point to the proper location. Try to edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and change the first baseurl to

Code:

baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Fedora/$basearch/os/

Most likely you have to uncomment the baseurl line and comment the mirrorlist line.

It says like this when I tried:
For:
# yum install gedit
The output is:
Config Error: File contains no section headers.
file: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo, line: 1
'\xef\xbb\xbf[fedora]\n'

Sanju22 · 06-17-2011, 05:42 AM

Now, yum command isn't working

I think, my code in fedora.repo has errors:
The follwing is the code:

[fedora]
name=Fedora 8 - i386
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
enabled = 0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora 8 - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

If errors are there, plz help me to correct them.

Snark1994 · 06-17-2011, 05:44 AM

Do you have a good reason for not upgrading your Fedora? Like people have said, it is rather out of date by now...

In what way is yum not working? Do you get an error message?

Sanju22 · 06-17-2011, 05:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snark1994

Do you have a good reason for not upgrading your Fedora? Like people have said, it is rather out of date by now...

In what way is yum not working? Do you get an error message?

I'm sorry for posting multiple threads of same problem.

I gotta work on a project which needs a software called NS2(Network Simulator 2). Our teacher was like Fedora 8 is the best for this sofware. So, I installed only Fedora 8.

Yes, I get the following error:
# yum install gedit
Config Error: File contains no section headers.
file: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo, line: 1
'\xef\xbb\xbf[fedora]\n'

Snark1994 · 06-17-2011, 06:01 AM

It's sounding like you've got some strange characters at the start of the file... Perhaps try:

Code:

cp /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo{,.backup}
dd if=/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.backup of=/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo bs=1 skip=3

Hopefully this should delete the first three hex characters which have been added. If it all goes wrong, then you can just copy the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.backup file back

Sanju22 · 06-17-2011, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snark1994

It's sounding like you've got some strange characters at the start of the file... Perhaps try:

Code:

cp /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo{,.backup}
dd if=/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.backup of=/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo bs=1 skip=3

Hopefully this should delete the first three hex characters which have been added. If it all goes wrong, then you can just copy the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.backup file back

Waoh! It worked. Now, when I try:
# yum install gedit
It displayed:
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package gedit available.
Nothing to do

Wat do I do now?

colucix · 06-17-2011, 06:08 AM

Try this fedora.repo

Code:

[fedora]
name=Fedora 8 - i386
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Fedora/$basearch/os/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora 8 - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

Basically you had all the repositories disabled (see enabled=0 in your file). Of the three repos in file fedora.repo you need only the first one enabled. You can leave the others out (not to mention they are not available anymore).