[SOLVED] How to install audacity Fedora 15

[minkmaster4000]

okay so i have fedora 15 and want to install audacity, i tried from yum install audacity, yum install audacity-freeworld, to actually downloading the .rpm and trying to install from that. i can say now that i'm lost. i'm pretty sure my repo's are all messed up because i get error messages every time i try to install something. someone please help me. I've been using Linux for a year now and now i can say i'm completely lost.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by minkmaster4000

okay so i have fedora 15 and want to install audacity, i tried from yum install audacity, yum install audacity-freeworld, to actually downloading the .rpm and trying to install from that. i can say now that i'm lost. i'm pretty sure my repo's are all messed up because i get error messages every time i try to install something. someone please help me. I've been using Linux for a year now and now i can say i'm completely lost.

Help yourself and post something useful eg the error message

[minkmaster4000]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

Help yourself and post something useful eg the error message

Here's the code input and error
[CODE[root@marcus marcus]# yum install audacity
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Repository google-chrome is listed more than once in the configuration
Trying other mirror.
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
fedora-chromium-stable | 3.4 kB 00:00
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db | 293 kB 00:03
updates/metalink | 17 kB 00:00
updates | 4.7 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 4.8 MB 00:56
updates/group_gz | 430 kB 00:04
virtualbox | 951 B 00:00
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: LumenVox. Please verify its path and try again
][/CODE]

how do i put the code in the box thing like everyone else on here?

[leigh123linux]

Try

su
yum install audacity --disablerepo=LumenVox

[minkmaster4000]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

Try

su
yum install audacity --disablerepo=LumenVox

I just tried what you said and it works! thank you so much!! will that disable that repo for good? or just for now?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by minkmaster4000

I just tried what you said and it works! thank you so much!! will that disable that repo for good? or just for now?

It disables it just for that yum transaction.

[minkmaster4000]

how do i disable it for good?

[leigh123linux]

You could delete it

su
rm /etc/yum.repos.d/LumenVox.repo

[minkmaster4000]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

You could delete it

su
rm /etc/yum.repos.d/LumenVox.repo

Thank you i did that and now i don't have that error message either!