yr2alex Posted December 27, 2004 Report Share Posted December 27, 2004 (edited) I installed MDK 10.0 on a test box here at my job and while attempting to set up URPMI using the easy urpmi online setup tool ran into a small brick wall. At any rate I did the following in this order after going to easy urpmi. # urpmi.removemedia -a no problems there then copied the first of a string of entries into the cli urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://rpm.pbone.net/pub/mandrake/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz waited, waited then waited some more before the following was rendered: retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"... ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed my guess is the proxy/firewall here so I edited the /root/.bash_profile by adding the following: http_proxy=myproxy.com:port# then edited /etc/profile by adding the following: export http_myproxy.com - and I still get : retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"... ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed any suggestions? yr2alex Edited December 30, 2004 by yr2alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padma Posted December 27, 2004 Report Share Posted December 27, 2004 My first thought would be to add the "--wget" option to the urpmi.addmedia command. This can sometimes get past curl problems. If that doesn't work, I would just try a different mirror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yr2alex Posted December 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 I was able to get URPMI configured at least in part by adding: --wget --proxy myproxy.com:80 --proxy-user myuid:mypasswd to urpmi.addmedia command which seem to do the trick, however, when I run for example: urpmi --wget --proxy myproxy.com:80 --proxy-user myuid:mypasswd xmms I get the following output: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/xmms-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm ...retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 1 or signal 0 Installation failed, some files are missing: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/xmms-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database My question to you is simply, does it matter if I use entries for 10.1 or not? I ask because I am obviously limited to mirror sources beginnig with http- for example: main http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakel...6/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz the firewall here blocks the ftp mirrors, any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 (edited) open a terminal and type as root: ping rpm.pbone.net then start urpmi again. does it work? if yes, you might suffer from a minor dns-problem, which can be solved easily. if it doesn't work, try again with different mirrors and report back. if it is a firewall problem, try with disabling the firewall during the mirror setup. will it work then? Edited December 28, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 And BTW, yes, you certainly need mirrors that match the version you have installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yr2alex Posted December 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 if it is a firewall problem, try with disabling the firewall during the mirror setup. will it work then? Unfortunately I cannot disable the Firewall because I do not administer it, therefore in order to get Mandy to work -I work around it. DNS was never an issue. This facility is a very secure facility so naturally firewalled for most incoming/outgoing traffic additionally to be able to access external sites I must go through a proxy as illustrated in my last post. The problem that I am experiencing with URPMI is that the Firewall here is more than likely blocking traffic from ftp mirrors- in fact I have had no success with them at all using URPMI and limited success via browser. However, with http mirrors I have experienced no problems. Having said that I'll try some other http mirrors. for the assist GUYs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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