hi ..
i've just installed fc6 from nfs server which have the dvd version and having a problem hope that u can help me, with.
yum installer is just won't work ! i exported the proxy as
export http_proxy=192.168.2.20:3128
and then try to install something let's say like frozen bubble

[root@localhost imlib2-1.3.0]# yum install frozen-bubble
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 102, in main
result, resultmsgs = do()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 359, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 134, in doCommand
return base.installPkgs(extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 509, in installPkgs
self.doRepoSetup()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 102, in doRepoSetup
yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 299, in doRepoSetup
repo.setup(self.conf.cache)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 524, in setup
self._loadRepoXML(text=self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 551, in _loadRepoXML
cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 451, in __get
http_headers=headers,
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 411, in urlgrab
return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 397, in _mirror_try
return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs )
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 927, in urlgrab
return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 845, in _retry
r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 913, in retryfunc
fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1001, in __init__
self._do_open()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1068, in _do_open
fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1164, in _make_request
fo = opener.open(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 573, in <lambda>
lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 580, in proxy_open
if '@' in host:
TypeError: iterable argument required





been 2 hours reading about this ! couldn't fine anyway making it work !!

Uninstall all yum and pirut rpm packages then install the updated yum packages from FC6 updates;

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...ore/updates/6/

yeah ..i tried this before posting in here ..

guess what was going wrong !!
i exported the proxy as the following
export http_proxy=http://192.168.2.20:3128


and all worked smooth !!

thank u .
ready for a frozen bubble challenge ? ;-)