[Yum] Novice problems

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:07 +0200, malcolm wrote:
> I suppose it's just me, since when I google, nobody else seems to have the 
> same problem. Perhaps I'm just a liitle bit slow but I don't seem to be able 
> to do even simple things with yum.
> 
> I wanted to upgrade KDE for SuSE 10.0. 
> 
> As far as I could see from the almost non existent documentation, I need to 
> have a file in /etc/yum.repos.d called, for instance kde.repo, i.e.
> 
> % cat /etc/yum.repos.d/kde.repo
> [KDE3]
> gpgkey=ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/pubring.gpg
> name=suse 10.0
> mirrorlist=http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3

the mirrorlist doesn't appear to be a mirrorlist.

change it to be:

baseurl=http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.0/

that _should_ work, or at least change the problem you're seeing :)

-sv