Getting started with packages...

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Andy!

The reported errors by yum, namely Error 4 and 256, refer to yum 
complaining that you are using dial-up.
Yum can be instructed to tolerate your choice of using dial-up by 
modifying the timeout variable within yum.conf.
This is done by first finding yum.conf which resides in the etc 
directory.  Therefore do:

#cd /etc

then make a choice of which editor you are most familiar with.  I use 
vim/vi:

#vim yum.conf

Look for the variable timeout and note how it is defined.  The default 
is as follows:

timeout=30

Another contributor to the list who also uses dial-up discovered that 
changing the value of timeout from 30 to 300 worked.  So do:

timeout=300

Then save your work and quit.

Yum should work from that point on.  What you have done is extend yum's 
timeout (or how long it waits before it just quits) from 30 sec to 300 sec.

However the larger the program and packages you download, you may have 
to modify the timeout variable again with an even larger value -- as 
long as you use dial-up.


Good Luck....
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Andrew Ball wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do I get started with packages on Yellow Dog Linux?  Here's what I get when
> I try to add uucp (for "cu", which in my opinion should be in the base system).
>
> - Andy Ball
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at job ~]# yum install uucp
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  40 kB    00:19
> http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.1/base/repodata/primary.xml.gz
> : [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors t
> o try.
> [root at job ~]#
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