Tom wrote:
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:[..404..]
see http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
3.90 does not exist
$releasever
3.90 = fc4t1
3.91 = fc4t2
3.92 = fc4t3
4 = FC4
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/
$basearch
= i386
= x86_64
= ppc
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/$basearch/
you could try
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/$basearch/
eg. i386er
# yum --enablerepo=extras install abiword
should install
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/abiword-2.2.5-3.i386.rpm
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shrek-m