On Tuesday 22 March 2005 04:19, Roger Grosswiler wrote: >>>>> snip <<<<< > as i wrote before, for fc4t1 just use the development-repository. it is > shipped with and enabled as the only repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ > > all the mirrors contain the same packages, at the moment the > development-repo contains the whole bunch of fc4. if you want to install > some more software you don't find in there, search in the extras. create in > /etc/yum.repos.d/something like extras.repo which contains: > > [extras] > name=Fedora EXTRAS $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasev >er/$basearch/ enabled=0 > gpgcheck=1 > > as it is enabled=0 (like all other repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/ except > development) you will have to yum --enablerepo install package, otherwise > yum won't read the other repos. > > This has nothing to do with the depencies of libwnck and gnome-pilot etc. > > HTH > Roger Hi Roger, I've been attempting to get a package (abiword) from the extras without success.Here are the messages I got when I tried it two ways and a copy of the /etc/yum.repos.d/extras.repo. [root@localhost tom]# yum --enablerepo install abiword Error getting repository data for install, repository not found [root@localhost tom]# yum --enablerepo=extras install abiword Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/3.90/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:45:49 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:15:02 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 4259 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras failure: repodata/repomd.xml from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/extras.repo [extras] name=Fedora EXTRAS $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 Should I copy a mirror spec from one of the other repos as they supposedly all have the same info or is the problem with how I'm calling yum? I've read "man yum" but haven't seen any glaring mistake in what I did above. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Taylor registered linux #263467