Re: yum fails

[roland <roland cat be>]

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:21:51 +0100, gary <garys mtaonline net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:35 +0100, roland wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a server RedHat 9 (so an old version) and I am trying to do an
> > install or update with yum. This fails:
> >
> > [root global WORK]# yum install kpdf
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror
> > retrygrab() failed for:
> >    http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
> >    Executing failover method
> > failover: out of servers to try
> > Error getting file
> > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
> > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
> >
> > Is there someone who knows what this means? The contents of  
> > /etc/yum.conf
> > you can see at:
> > http://roland.dns2go.com/examples/yum.conf
>
>  You might check with these folks = http://fedoralegacy.org/
> Their website indicates they're supporting 9 .   -----gary

Thanks Gary,
I will give a one try.
The problem that I had was that not only I cannot do any update of the OS,  
but also some programs, like LaTeX, do not do what they are supposed to do.
So if I do not find any solution quickly, I will install it in the mean  
time under Windows(poor me), and reinstall the server with Fedora or  
Centos.

Thanks again
roland