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[ravi79]

Hi All,

Please help me:

# yum list
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
#

any solutions on this errors

Thanks
Ravi

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

What exactly are you trying to get yum to list? Updates, Obsolete packages? Also, which distro are you running?

[ravi79]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am using RHEL4. i am looking for available s/w

#yum list available
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
#

Thanks
Ravi

[jayd512]

To install software with yum, the command would be

yum install <package_name>

To see what's available in your repo do

yum list available

[ravi79]

Hi,

I am trying to list the available s/w using the following Command

yum list available

Output:
# yum list available
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
#

Please explain me what could be the cause for this error.

Thanks
Ravi

[jayd512]

Have you set-up any repositories? What is the output of

cat /etc/yum.repos.d/

[ravi79]

As per my knowledge i have not setup any repo. But after
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

i found one repo.
Output:
ll /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2079 Oct 23 2006 ULN-Base.repo

Thanks
Ravi

[jayd512]

That's why there's nothing really available to you. Execute, as root

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

This should give you access to the online repository.

[ravi79]

Thanks i have executed the rpmforge-released. The above command was sucessfully executed. But still,

# yum list available
Setting up repositories
rpmforge 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update

What could be ther problem?

Thanks
Ravi

[jayd512]

Execute, one mode time

cat /etc/yum.repos.d/

Post output here.