missing files

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Tom wrote:

>I've been attempting to get a package (abiword) from the extras without 
>success.Here are the messages I got when I tried it two ways and a copy of 
>the /etc/yum.repos.d/extras.repo.
>
>[root at localhost tom]# yum --enablerepo install abiword
>Error getting repository data for install, repository not found
>
>[root at localhost tom]# yum --enablerepo=extras install abiword
>Setting up Install Process
>Setting up Repos
>development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/3.90/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:[..404..] 
>  
>

see  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
3.90  does not exist

$releasever
3.90 = fc4t1
3.91 = fc4t2
3.92 = fc4t3
4  =  FC4

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/

$basearch
= i386
= x86_64
= ppc

>contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/extras.repo
>[extras]
>name=Fedora EXTRAS $releasever - $basearch - Base
>baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
>  
>

you could try
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/$basearch/

eg.  i386er
# yum --enablerepo=extras install abiword

should install 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/abiword-2.2.5-3.i386.rpm

-- 
shrek-m