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# 1  
Old 03-09-2010
yum problem
hi

i am not able to do yum update in centos5
i was not able to use yum at all.i am getting an like this.

Code:
#yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

please help me what i have missed
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 03-11-2010 at 05:52 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 03-11-2010
Hi
as it says "No Packages marked for Update" this is not an error, it just means you have the latest packages, and therefore no updates are necessary.

Dave
# 3  
Old 03-17-2010
yum problem
now i am getting this error


# yum install vlc
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?releas...86&repo=addons error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons

can you please help me.
# 4  
Old 03-17-2010
What does

Code:
wget http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=addons

Give?
# 5  
Old 03-18-2010
You can use the rpm forge repository for RHEL5 as : OR the EPEL repository by Fedora

# 6  
Old 03-18-2010
Sorry posted twice ..
# 7  
Old 04-05-2010
this is seem network problem or yum server's configuration file is maybe wrong
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