Help with Update System

[Corey_James]

So I've been trying to update my system. I get a message -


"Repository configuration invalid"
"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: core. Please verify its path and try again"

I googled the error message, but the forums I found didn't help me at all. If someone could give me a nudge in the right direction that would be great. I'm not asking a lot from linux, I just want it to work better than Vista.

Thanks.

[glennzo]

Try yum clean all and then yum update. Also, can you post the output of the command yum repolist please? What release of Fedora?

[Corey_James]

I had to remove the "http"from the output because the forum said I can't post URL's

yum update resulted in the following -

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Repository updates is listed more than once in the configuration
core | 1.4 kB 00:00
ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/9/#basearch/core/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for core: Damaged repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: core. Please verify its path and try again

yum repolist resulted in -

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Repository updates is listed more than once in the configuration
core | 1.4 kB 00:00
ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/9/#basearch/core/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for core: Damaged repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: core. Please verify its path and try again

[Corey_James]

Fedora Core 11

[glennzo]

Get rid of that freshrpms repository. Here's what you should see when you type yum repolist while running Fedora 11 (There's no core, so it's not Fedora Core 11).

[glenn@laptopbeta ~]$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id                            repo name                                              status
fedora                             Fedora 11 - i386                                       enabled: 13,289
rpmfusion-free                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free                        enabled:    653
rpmfusion-free-updates             RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free - Updates              enabled:    653
rpmfusion-nonfree                  RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree                     enabled:    259
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates          RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree - Updates           enabled:    259
updates                            Fedora 11 - i386 - Updates                             enabled:  1,087
repolist: 16,200

So from a terminal type

su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo'

Find the line that reads enabled=1 and change it to read enabled=0. Save and exit. Do the same for any other third party repository you've installed. Then try using yum again.

[Corey_James]

That worked. At least I can update my system now. Is there a way to search for third party stuff I installed using yum, because I can't remember if I have or not.


Thanks for taking the time to help.

[jayd512]

You can search for installed packages with

rpm -qa <package-name>