yum not working on newly installed Fedora 12

[huttenr]

I recently installed Fedora 12 onto a computer at work. My end goal is to install Matlab, but that is not working because I do not have the right files in my lib64 folder. In order to install the files which matlab requires, I need to use yum to download the right library files.

Any yum command results in the following error:

# yum update yum
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
URL LINK TO FEDORA (wouldn't let me post it)

[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 5 - ""
Trying other mirror.

I have seen numerous solutions online for this problem, but none of the suggestions have worked. I have tried modifying the the repos files in /etc/yum.repos.d by switching baseurl and mirror, but no luck there.

I believe one problem is that we have a corporate proxy which I cannot control. I set up the internet on the computer, and added the following lines to /etc/profile:

http_proxy=mycorporateproxy (can't post url)
export http_proxy
ftp_proxy=mycorporateproxy (can't post url)
export ftp_proxy

After all of this, I still get the same error when using yum.

I am relatively new to linux, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

[yancek]

This might explain:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipe...er/002895.html

[huttenr]

yancek: thanks for the quick reply. Does this mean that yum will not work at all for Fedora versions have reached "End of Life"?

I was told we were using Fedora 12 in order to avoid software incompatibility between the software we use and the operating system. Do you think using Fedora 15 would work better for this issue?

[jayd512]

Does this mean that yum will not work at all for Fedora versions have reached "End of Life"?

You may run into issue with attempt to run any updates. yum pulls from actively maintained repos, and after EOL those repos are not really maintained all that much.

I was told we were using Fedora 12 in order to avoid software incompatibility between the software we use and the operating system. Do you think using Fedora 15 would work better for this issue?

It might. Installing a newer version would be the safer choice simply for more recent security patches and such. The software compatibility depends entirely on the program that you are trying to use.

[glennzo]

You can alter your repo files to point to archive.fedoraproject.org. Then you may be able to get the packages you need.

[huttenr]

glennzo,

I found the repo files and changed the baseurl line in (fedora.repo and fedora-update.repo) to direct to the archived folder which has the correct files inside of it. Still no luck there; I get the same error message. Any other ideas?

[jayd512]

Have you spoken with the IT department in your corporation? Are you sure that your company's proxy will allow the Fedora repos? Does this computer have a working internet connection?

[huttenr]

I would assume that the firewall does not block the fedora repos because when i navigate directly to the url in my web browser, I am able to reach the correct page. And yes, the internet connection is working just fine.

[glennzo]

Actually, I'm wrong. I have Fedora 12 installed under VirtualBox. The repos are working with the default configuration.

[glenn@f12v ~>$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id                                    repo name                                                     status
fedora                                     Fedora 12 - i386                                              15,263+103
rpmfusion-free                             RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free                                      383
rpmfusion-free-updates                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free - Updates                            257
rpmfusion-nonfree                          RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree                                   124
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                  RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree - Updates                         211
updates                                    Fedora 12 - i386 - Updates                                     7,616+100

Here's the top section of my fedora.repo file.

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[huttenr]

I have altered the fedora.repo files several times in an attempt to get this to work, but none of the suggestions, from this web site and others, have worked.

glenzzo, my fedora.repo file currently reads the same as the one you suggested, but still no luck. Maybe I have configured something wrong with the proxy?

Here is what I did for configuring the proxy:

in /etc/profile, I added the http_proxy= and ftp_proxy= lines followed by export http_proxy, export ftp_proxy

in /etc/hosts, I added:
80.239.156.215 mirrors.fedoraproject.org
213.129.242.84 mirrors.rpmfusion.org

Any ideas about what I have done wrong?