Fedora 12 install - invalid file being requested

cgcarpenter · #1 5th February 2010, 05:23 PM

I'm trying to install Fedora 12 from a DVD created by an iso I downloaded. When the install gets to the point of actually installing files, I get a message saying that it can't find 'authconfig-gtk-6.0.0.-2.fc12.i686.rpm'. I looked at the DVD for that file and it isn't there. I found 'authconfig-gtk-5.4.13-1.fc12.i686.rpm'. Any ideas how to fix this? The DVD passed the media check at the beginning of the install. I'm not exactly a newbie in Linux as I have some experience with it. Thanks for your help.

stoat · #2 5th February 2010, 06:08 PM

Hello cgcarpenter,

Well, authconfig-gtk-5.4.13-1.fc12.i686.rpm is the file on the DVD (and first CD of the CD set). And authconfig-gtk-6.0.0-2.fc12.i686.rpm is the version of that file now in the Fedora 12 updates repo. So maybe you chose some of the "additional repos" in Anaconda. If so, try not doing that and installing with only the default "Installation Repo" checked. That should prevent Anaconda from trying to install from anywhere but the DVD.

cgcarpenter · #3 5th February 2010, 07:27 PM

I did select the repositories during the setup. I'll try it again without doing that and let you know. I wondered why no one else was reporting this problem.

tbroberg · #4 8th April 2010, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoat

Hello cgcarpenter,

Well, authconfig-gtk-5.4.13-1.fc12.i686.rpm is the file on the DVD (and first CD of the CD set). And authconfig-gtk-6.0.0-2.fc12.i686.rpm is the version of that file now in the Fedora 12 updates repo. So maybe you chose some of the "additional repos" in Anaconda. If so, try not doing that and installing with only the default "Installation Repo" checked. That should prevent Anaconda from trying to install from anywhere but the DVD.

I'm having the same problem installing from the network install CD, where just installing from the disk isn't really an option.

How does anybody else get this thing to install?

SlowJet · #5 8th April 2010, 11:34 PM

Try, try again until the rpm is in the mirror repo.
Or go to the repos you use and check to see if the rpm is there

One time I had to netinstall 3 times because the rpm was there, but it was just bad on that mirror.

It not a dice roll, but just sometimes things get messed up.

SJ