any guide pls?

Run from the terminal:

yum update

(with root privileges)

this prompted me after issuing yum update, any tutorial available? pls help.

[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
[root@localhost ~]#

Unless you modified /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo, you may be experiencing a networking problem.

But the baseurl error message makes it sound like the fedora-updates.repo baseurl option has been changed to an invalid address. If that is the case, then change back to the mirrorlist option and try the updating again.

If fedora-updates.repo has NOT been changed and you are UNABLE to open the fedora-updates mirror list ( http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mi...s-released-fc4 ) using Firefox, then the problem is not with yum.

Hi,
i think you don't have a file fedora-updates.repo. Check if u have this file in /etc/yum.repo.d/ . In case u don't have this file open gedit & copy the following contents to the file & save the file as fedora-updates.repo

i got this after yum update:

[root@netsoft ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/l...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
[root@netsoft ~]#

here is my fedora-updates.repo:

[root@netsoft ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/$ARCH/
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/...ore/updates/4/$ARCH/
http://mirrors.csumb.edu/pub/fedora/updates/4/$ARCH/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

here is my fedora.repo:

[root@netsoft ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/$ARCH/
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/...ore/updates/4/$ARCH/
http://mirrors.csumb.edu/pub/fedora/updates/4/$ARCH/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

here is my sysconfig/rhn/sources:

[root@netsoft ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
### This describes the various package repositories (repos) that up2date will
### query for packages. It currently supports apt-rpm, yum, and "dir" repos.

### Format is one repository (repo) entry per line, # starts comments, the
### first word on each line is the type of repo.

### The default RHN (using "default" as the url means use the one in the
### up2date config file).
#up2date default

### Note: when a channel label is required for the non up2date repos,
### the label is solely used as an internal identifier and is not
### based on the url or any other info from the repos.

### An apt style repo (the example is arjan's 2.6 kernel repo).
### The format is:
### type channel-label service:server path repo name
#apt arjan-2.6-kernel-i386 http://people.redhat.com ~arjanv/2.5/ kernel

### Note: for apt repos, there can be multiple repo names specified (space
### seperated).

### A yum style repo. The format is:
### type channel-label url

#yum my-favorite-rpms http://my.local.domain/fedora/linux/core/$ARCH/

### A local directory full of packages (a "dir" repo). For example:
#dir my-favorite-rpms /var/spool/RPMS/

### Repo Metadata
# Note that setting this makes up2date look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ for
# repository configuration.
# type channel-label url
repomd fedora http://fedora.redhat.com/

# Multiple versions of all repos except "up2date" can be used. Dependencies
# can be resolved "cross-repo" if need be.

[root@netsoft ~]#

You have overridden the default setups in the .repos files and have selected apparently defective mirrors. Either select a functional mirror for each .repo or revert to the default mirrorlist= option.

Hi,
The url u provided was faulty. It should be http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/l...ata/repomd.xml & not i686. Its better that you use the fedora-update.repo file i posted (its the default one provided) b'cos it use mirrorlist instead of relying on single url. So it skips to the next mirror if the one mirror fails.


--ashwin