Problem with yum

[rzs]

Hi,

I am a Linux newbie and am using Red Hat Linux 9 and downloaded and installed yum from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/d...4-1.noarch.rpm.
But, now when I try to use yum for downloading packages I get errors. For example when I do :

 yum list available

I get the following error :

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info
[Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):

My yum.conf file is as follows :

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/


[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

I also tried following the instructions given on http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/#installsoftware and replaced my yum.conf with the one given there but on doing that when I run :

 yum list available

I get the following errors :

Error: Cannot find baseurl or name for server 'freshrpms'. Skipping
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms - Stable
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/Null/en/i386/at-stable/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/atrpms/download.atrpms.net/fedora/Null/en/i386/at-stable/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/ATrpms/fedora/Null/en/i386/at-stable/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/Null/en/i386/at-stable/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>

Please help.
Thanks a lot

[daark.child]

Redhat 9 is an old unsupported distro. Use something newer like Fedora which is a community project sponsored by Redhat. The latest stable version of Fedora is 6. Also take a look at this link.

[rzs]

Hi daark.child,

I have been having a lot of problems with RH9 , and I can now understand why that is so because as u said it is an unsupported distro.
Ill try to get my hands on a copy of Fedora Core asap, and I hope that fixes most of the troubles.

Thanks again for ur help