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Old 08-13-2007, 05:18 AM   #1
me4linux
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Yum not working when pidgin.repo is added


Hi all

i have copied the pidgin.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/
directory and tried to install pidgin like the following

yum -y install pidgin pidgin-devel

i am getting the following error
================================================
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
http://rpm.pidgin.im/fedora/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:14:13 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 231
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Cache: MISS from ATCPROXY
Proxy-Connection: close

Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: pidgin
==============================================

please help ne to make this pidgin.repo working..

THANKS IN ADVANCE
 
Old 08-13-2007, 05:44 AM   #2
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well, it's a 404... the file doesn't exist...

http://rpm.pidgin.im/fedora/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml

looks like they just don't support fedora 7 as other versions exists...

http://rpm.pidgin.im/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repomd.xml

Last edited by acid_kewpie; 08-13-2007 at 05:46 AM.
 
  


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