why won't updates install?

[bkovacevich]

trying to do the automatic updates, keep getting an error message:

Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 657, in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(only_trusted, package_ids)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1948, in update_packages
signed = self._is_package_repo_signed(pkg)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1437, in _is_package_repo_signed
repo = self.yumbase.repos.getRepo(pkg.repoid)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 121, in getRepo
'Error getting repository data for $s, repository not found' $ (repoid)

also got lotsa messages that particular packages could not be installed so deselected them and tried to continue, after that is when i got the above message. selected only security updates last nite and that seemed to work okay, also selected only the yum-specific updates earlier today and that seemed to go okay. so what is up? i am a newbie so be kind, please!

[coopstah13]

what is your distro?

try this

su -
yum clean all
yum update

[bkovacevich]

that seemed to do the trick, i was trying to use the graphical system update tool earlier (btw, i am using fc12) - is that the difference between rpm and yum? as i said in the original post, i am a newbie ...

[coopstah13]

yum manages retrieval of packages and list of available packages

rpm installs rpm packages

[x2015-0706]

what is your distro?

try this

su -
yum clean all
yum update

yes! this works.

the GUI auto update under gnome always gave me error, failed to update anything.
in my memory this kind of error things happen all the time no matter what distros or versions.
why gui update always goes wrong in the first time system update?

oh thanks a lot for the command line yum thing, it downloaded more than 500mB and gets everything up to date finally.

[devils casper]

You can use Graphical Interface of yum, Yum Extender.

su -c 'yum -y install yumex'

Graphical Interface and Auto Updater are two different packages. Yum Extender makes package management a lot easier.