Alexa Pongracz wrote: > I cannot update or install as I have to remove a command or a request > from yum. > When I go to update software I get the message: Cannot open read .xml > file for repository jahshaka > > if I use the terminal To update I get this message: > Cannot open read .xml file for repository jahshaka > > http://repo.jahshaka.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: > believe me I don't want to install this any more but need to get it out > of my yum's memory or will have to reformat. Any suggestions > appreciated. David Boles replied: > You do not have to reformat. > > > Do you remember how you installed this repo? Was it an rpm package? If so: > > yum remove <packagename> > > yum clean all > > yum update > > [y/N] your choice If you can't even get into yum to run yum remove, then rpm -e <packagename> will work. If you don't know what <packagename> is, then rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/*jahshaka* will probably tell you. Or you could just try rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/*jahshaka* | xargs rpm -e Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | The winds, however, get very lazy that time of year; they aprilcottage.co.uk | don't bother going around you, they just go right on | through. | -- Joe Zeff -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
