want to undo a previous command (repository)

tonj · 11-09-2008, 06:57 PM

yum install used to work fine on my Fedora 9 machine.
Then tonight I was following some instructions on the internet and I ran:
rpm -Uhv http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries....c4.rf.i386.rpm.
Now whenever I do yum install I get:
'Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/fc4/mirrors-rpmforge error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmforge. Please verify its path and try again.'
How can I undo what i did so that yum install works properly like it used to?

kenneho · 11-10-2008, 01:18 AM

Hi.

What kind of changes did you run? Did you back up your respository file?

Don't know what kind of a package you installed, but it may be that it made a backup of you repository file ("<repofilename>.repo.rpmnew" or something).

billymayday · 11-10-2008, 01:44 AM

Why did you try to install a FC4 repo for Fedora 9?

Have a look in /etc/yum.repos.d and delete the offending repo file.

You could also try rpm -e package_name, but it wil ljust delete the repo.

tonj · 11-11-2008, 07:58 AM

yeah thanks I did delete the offending file and now it seems to be working again. Thanks for your response.