[SOLVED] Need help with package manager fedora 10 (Add/Remove Program)

[rockor]

Hi, I am new to linux with only a slight experience. The other day i installed F10 KDE. And when i wanted to install some new applications with KPackage Kit it wasn't showing any applications, not even the installed ones. When i refreshed my list it's showing some error related to repomd.xml. May be the file isn't present or it's not in my path.......
I am frust. .. it's so easy in ubuntu..........

[daark.child]

Can you post the exact error message? To get better diagnostics, try installing, removing or listing packages using yum and if there are any errors reported post them.

[rockor]

Can you post the exact error message? To get better diagnostics, try installing, removing or listing packages using yum and if there are any errors reported post them.

so this is the exact error message it's showing:

Repository configuration was invalid and could not be read.
Details:
Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify is path and try again.

moreover this message is shown when i refresh my list.......... actually it's showing nothing in the package list......... not even the installed ones......

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

Have you been able to install packages before this? Or is this a brand new installation?
typically when you first install, the first thing you'll want to do is

yum update

to make sure all of your system tools are up to date. Try this and post back any errors. Also, what is the output of

yum repolist

[rockor]

no it's not working........ the same error related to repomd.xml........

[shivam@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost shivam]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist 
                                    
                                   error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

it's showing the same with other yum commands as well..........

hey note that the mirrorlist url is missing as i can't post it now.... (i'd have atleast 15 posts before that)

[devils casper]

Is internet working fine in your machine? Are you behind proxy?

[rockor]

Is internet working fine in your machine? Are you behind proxy?

ya i am behind proxy but internet is working fine......

see the problem is that it's not even showing the installed packages.....
no connection must be required for that........

[devils casper]

Post the contents of /etc/yum.conf file here.

[daark.child]

If you are using a proxy, you need to configure yum to use it. Take a look here for more details.

[rockor]

Post the contents of /etc/yum.conf file here.

so here are the contents of the /etc/yum.conf file:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3

#  This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
#  It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

and the problem is more severe as i can't install any rpm package also........

i wonder nobody has such problem..... it looks to be some bug in the version itself..........