yum update problem
 

hi... i'am trying to install systemtap in my system through proxy
whenever i try to run YUM following error comes


[root@localhost]# yum install all
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
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.

And have you edited the /etc/yum.conf file for the proxy???

ya i have edited...
added proxy settings

# The proxy server - proxy server : port number
proxy=http://ip : port/
# The account details for yum connections
proxy_username=username
proxy_password=pass

well can any one tell me how to install using repositories ...

ne one pls help

Just click on Add/Remove Software, check some boxes, click Apply, whoosh, there you go. Each item that is listed in there can also be downloaded from the command line using yum. -Just open a terminal (Applications > System Tools > Terminal)
- type su - (this will make you root; you can't install stuff without being root)
- type your root password
- start using yum: for example, to install firefox: yum install firefox (which should already be installed so this is just an example); to check for updates: yum check-update; to perform an update: yum update to accept all the updates or yum update package name to update only that specific package.
You can also install Yumex, which is a GUI version of yum. It works like Add/Remove but it is better organized.

Well, either your config files still aren't OK or something is wrong with your repo files. Are you sure that you have any repo files in /etc/yum/repos.d. They should have been installed for you if you are using Fedora 8 but previous versions often came without.

am using fc4... there is no folder /etc/yum/repos.d so what should i do?

Well, you could search the internet for those repo files but you'd still be running an unsupported operating system. I think you should consider installing Fedora 8. Fedora releases are supported for only about a year so it always makes sense to get the latest one. If you need something more tested, try CentOS instead (a Red Hat clone).

hey can anyone help everytime im trying to install anything using yum it is installing only sqlite.bz2 from various miirrors again n again. what could be d problem...