Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

[sarpkaya]

Hi, When I try to enter yum update
it gives such an error in fedora 5,
how can I fix it? Thanx.

[glennzo]

With all due respect, you can fix it by installing Fedora 9. The repositories for Fedora 5 are long since closed up as Fedora 5 is no longer supported. I'm afraid that the only way to continue to receive updates is with an updated operating system.

[sarpkaya]

Originally Posted by glennzo

With all due respect, you can fix it by installing Fedora 9. The repositories for Fedora 5 are long since closed up as Fedora 5 is no longer supported. I'm afraid that the only way to continue to receive updates is with an updated operating system.

But this is my server, datacenter is not supporting any other fedora 5 versions???

[glennzo]

Not to my knowledge. If you want to update one or two programs you may be able to find a source to download from but you'll probably run into dependency errors.

[PabloTwo]

Look through the FC5 mirror sites on this list and use the url from anyone you find working to replace the url in your current fedora 5 repo file. Of course, nothing in any of the repos listed on this site will have anything recent.

[JohnVV]

But this is my server, datacenter

for a server/data-center i would do a fresh install .Using RHEL 5.2 or CentOS or novel suse
that is unless you like doing fresh installs every 6 mo. to a year .If so then install fedora 9 and in a few months then do a fresh install of fedora 10 then next year fedora 11 or 12 ..

[cazo]

On my older system running Fedora 4, I had to change the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/:

from

baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

to

baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

If you look under http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu...ra/linux/core/, you should be able to find the URLs for Extras, Updates, Testing, etc.

Like the others said, there won't be any recent updates, but you should still be able to install needed (older) packages.

[sarpkaya]

Originally Posted by cazo

On my older system running Fedora 4, I had to change the files in /etc/yum.repos:

from


to


If you look under http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu...ra/linux/core/, you should be able to find the URLs for Extras, Updates, Testing, etc.

Like the others said, there won't be any recent updates, but you should still be able to install needed (older) packages.

There's a folder which named, yum.repos.d inside that folder there are 6 files. Which is gonna be changed?

[marko]

Originally Posted by JohnVV

for a server/data-center i would do a fresh install .Using RHEL 5.2 or CentOS or novel suse
that is unless you like doing fresh installs every 6 mo. to a year .If so then install fedora 9 and in a few months then do a fresh install of fedora 10 then next year fedora 11 or 12 ..

Fresh installs aren't absolutely necessary anymore as long as you're only upgrading between two consecutive fedora versions. Just run "preupgrade"

[sarpkaya]

Is 6 supported by fedora? or is that just like 5?

[JohnVV]

currently fedora 8,9,10 beta are supported , and in a few weeks fedora 8 will no longer be supported.
Fedora 8 will hit it's End Of Life 1 ( one) month after fedora 10 is released .

[cazo]

Originally Posted by sarpkaya

There's a folder which named, yum.repos.d inside that folder there are 6 files. Which is gonna be changed?

The change I gave would be applied to /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo for the entry labelled [base].

For /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo, I had to change [extras]:

baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/

to

baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/

And for /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo, I changed [updates-released]:

baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever

to

baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

I made a similar change to the [{base, extras, update}-source] entries, since I sometimes download the source packages.

I didn't change /etc/yum/repos.d/fedora-devel.repo, /etc/yum/repos.d/fedora-extras-devel.repo or /etc/yum/repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo. Are those the 6 files you're referring to?

[ayush1794]

hi
i'm trying to install gcc in my fedora 17
but i get the following error
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from fedora: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
please help.