Sep

5

How to fix problems with RPMforge

Filed Under Fix, Linux, error 

Recently site http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge went down and this broke my YUM. Here is the error:

Setting up repositories
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, ‘Name or service not known’)>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge

As a solution I’ve edited manually my /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge

And commented out problem site.

Then edited /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

And commented live list and uncommented file. Like this

#mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge

Now YUM it is back. Still get some mirroring errors, but at least I can use it.

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