On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 17:54:26 Philip Keogh wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Gary Stainburn wrote: >>> On Friday 23 January 2015 15:59:48 Gary Stainburn wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm now installing Fedora 16 on my server and am going to re-do the last >>>> 4 days work >>> >>> Of course, my next problem is that yum no longer works, presumably >>> because there are no repositories left. Is this true, or are there still >>> some out there that I can use? >> >> Of course this should never be used in production or exposed to the >> internet, but there is a repository you can use: >> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything >>/x86_64/os/ >> >> For help adding the repository to that version of Fedora, see >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/System_Administrators_Gu >>ide/sec-Managing_Yum_Repositories.html > > I've updated my server to F17 and then tried to do a yum update. This has also > failed, so I've tried your suggestion, replacing 16 with 17. I then added the > public key, but I still cannot do yum updates: > > Can anyone suggest what to do next to get updates working? > > [root@eddie-new ~]# yum update > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit > Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora. Please verify its path > and try again > [root@eddie-new ~]# yum-config-manager --add-repo > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/ > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit > adding repo from: > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/ > > [dl.fedoraproject.org_pub_archive_fedora_linux_releases_17_Everything_x86_64_os_] > name=added from: > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/ > baseurl=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/ > enabled=1 You probably need to point to the F17 archives: http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
