[Wylug-discuss] Wine

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, glennschultz at talktalk.net wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> I've got Fedora on my machine and am trying to download Wine so that we can
> get i-tunes and make the i-pods work!  It's been an uphill stuggle so far
> and I've got nowhere.  When I try to download it I get this
>
> [Glenn at localhost ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root at localhost Glenn]# yum install wine
> freshrpms                 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/repo/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
> Trying other mirror.
> http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/repo/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/repo/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/repo/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://rpm.livna.org/repo/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: livna. Please verify its path and try again
> [root at localhost Glenn]#
>
> Does anybody know what I need to do to sort the problem???  I can't stress
> too strongly that I'm not an IT professional so please make it simple!
>
> PS how do I configure Evolution so I don't have to keep cutting and pasting
> e-mail addresses into talktalk

I think you've just introduced yourself to the downside of a distribution with
a short life span.  All those '7's littered all over make me think you're
using Fedora 7, or to put it a different way, a version of Fedora that stopped
being supported... last May?

jh

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