SNES Error

[billb]

I tried the previously mentioned and i got the same error message, leading me to believe my system is retrieving the mirror URL from another location??

Try running yum clean all first, and if that doesn't work, post your repo files here -- use this command to print them:

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more /etc/yum.repos.d/*

(keep pressing space until all are printed out)

[billb]

I tried the previously mentioned and i got the same error message, leading me to believe my system is retrieving the mirror URL from another location??

Doh! My fault. The new line should be baseurl= not just url=. Sorry about that. Just tested and confirmed it works.

[Locke023]

Im afraid to say that even with you catching your mistake, it did not help for me. I then tried to post my repo files, but the read out looks something like this. :
[root@localhost ~]# more /etc/yum.repos.d/*
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/etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
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[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux


*** /etc/yum.repos.d/all-20071007: directory ***

::::::::::::::
/etc/yum.repos.d/all-20071007.tar.bz2
::::::::::::::
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It goes on for quite awhile. Im not sure whats causing this. But, assuming its my fault, i blame all the previous websites i used for setting up Repos before i found this site. Is there a way i can erase all the repos ive done and go back to default so i can start fresh again?

[billb]

It goes on for quite awhile. Im not sure whats causing this. But, assuming its my fault, i blame all the previous websites i used for setting up Repos before i found this site.

Indeed.

Is there a way i can erase all the repos ive done and go back to default so i can start fresh again?

Sure ... the listing that appears as gibberish (all-20071007.tar.bz2) is an archive -- not a regular text file -- so that's why it looks so odd. And the Adobe repo is of no use for PPC Linux.

We should probably start with a listing of the files you have in that directory and go from there...

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ls /etc/yum.repos.d

I'd remove anything except for the yellowdog-* repo files. For example, to delete the adobe one:

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su

<root password>

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cd /etc/yum.repos.d

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rm adobe*

And that archive and the folder it created when you extracted it:

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rm -rf all*

(this command will delete all files and folders beginning with "all")

Get rid of everything in the /etc/yum.repos.d folder until you're left with yellowdog-base.repo, yellowdog-updates.repo, and yellowdog-extras.repo, then we can look at the printout again:

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more /etc/yum.repos.d/*

[Locke023]

Ok i cleaned everything up.
Somehow there were two copies of the 3 yellowdog Repos- altho each one had something different under Gedit, so i removed the set named:
yellowdog-base.repo~ (for example) and kept the yellowdog-base.repo.
heres my new readable printout:

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# more /etc/yum.repos.d/*
::::::::::::::
/etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-base.repo
::::::::::::::
#generated by system-config-ydlnet
[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 Base
#baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/6.1/base/
mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd61-base-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
protect=1
::::::::::::::
/etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-extras.repo
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#generated by system-config-ydlnet
[extras]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 Extras
#baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/6.1/extras/
mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd61-extras-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
::::::::::::::
/etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-updates.repo
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#generated by system-config-ydlnet
[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 Updates
#baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/6.1/updates/
mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd61-updates-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
protect=1
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]#

Does everything look up to check? i hope i didnt mess up by removing the other set of yellowdog repos.

[billb]

Those extra yellowdog repo files you had ending in .repo~ were created by the gedit text editor -- by default it creates backup files of anything you edit using the same filename with a ~ added on the end. Since they end in .repo~ instead of .repo, yum doesn't use them and they don't hurt anything, but it does make your printout more readable.

So ... You'll want to have the mirrorlist commented out (#) since it's not currently working. It looks like http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com is OK at the moment, just not http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com.

So just edit each one of those repo files, removing the # symbol in front of baseurl and adding it in front of mirrorlist. For example:

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#generated by system-config-ydlnet
[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 Base
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/6.1/base/
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd61-base-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
protect=1

Then I'd suggest following the guide for setting up the ps3bodega repo (and fedora-extras) as described here:

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=21

[Locke023]

Am i supposed to use the Gedit command to make the changes you suggested??
or did i miss 101 on how to change it?

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-base.repo

then change the # location correct?? rinse and repeat for extras and updates?
just want to be on the safe side. getting kinda old messing with this



Update Edit:
went with the above formula and now everything is fixed. i got snes9x to download. thanks for the help. A+ for quick responses.
-Locke023