apt-get or yum

James A. Ricken yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
31 May 2003 19:28:46 -0500


On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 19:14, John Dennis wrote:
> Can some one try either of these and let me know if you can connect?  I have 
> tried both of these and I am unable to connect.  I get the error below.  I am 
> logged on as root and I am connected to the internet.  The first error is 
> from apt-get while the second error is from yum.  Basically I am getting no 
> route to host and I want to see if it is just my setup or if others are 
> having the same problems.  I have read that others have had problems with 
> apt-get and they are told to use yum, but I am having problems with both.
> 
> Failed to fetch 
> http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/srclist.update  
> Could not connect to ftp.yellowdoglinux.com:80 (152.2.210.109). - connect 
> (113 No route to host)
> 
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
> IOError: [Errno socket error] (113, 'No route to host')
> URL: 
> http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.main/headers/header.info
John
I had trouble with apt-get
So I used yum and it worked great!
You have to be are logged in as /root
or use a terminal window type su enter your password
Jim
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