Topic: Software installer fails ??

[steve288]

I tryed to use the software installer.

I would try to load all the updates and it would eventually fail after about 5 green bars. The failure was a proxy failure.

I read some posts and someone said

A quick fix (which may resolve all your issues) would be to delete
/home/e-smith/db/yum_repositories
then do
signal-event post-upgrade
reboot

I did this. But now I get Not "using-ftp" where the files should be listed.

This machine has two network cards one outside and one inside. I can ping www.google.com

Regards

[steve288]

I have manually installed the updates by typeing in.

pluginyum update --disablerepo=* \
--enablerepo=smeos \
--enablerepo=smeupdates \
--enablerepo=smeaddons

This is because the normal routes didnt seem to work. This seems like a beter way of doing things as the interface just seems to not work very well for me. ANYWAY, now I seem to have a few new updates listed in the available updates window that appear to not be installed but really are.
When I try to update them I get the following message.

Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror"
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

when I run rpm -q nameof.rpm it shows that they are already installed. This is why Im getting the error message as above. How can I make the yum (?) db know they are installed.

Reagards.

[pfloor]

First try:

#yum clean all
#yum update *yum*

Note: there is a couple of bugs in the bug tracker concerning yum and proxys.  This may be your problem and hasn't been resolved yet as far as I know.

[steve288]

Thanks I will give it a try.