Yum Troubles Finally Fixed!
I have been having yum troubles for about a month now. I am unable to install or update packages using yum. This is pretty annoying as I am now totally dependent on yum auto-dependency checking features and third party repositories like livna, dag and atrpms. So, for the past month, I have been installing and updating packages by hand. Cripes. However, today I was finally able to solve it. You have a problem if you see the following errors on multiple packages:
- [Errno -1] Package does not match checksum
- [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
- [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 18:38:47 GMT
Doing a ‘yum clean all’ is not enough as the faulty header files and cache files are still around. I was desperate. So, I backed up my ‘/var/cache/yum’ and deleted. (rm -rf /var/cache/yum). After this, I did a ‘yum update’ and now all is well. I read in a few mailing lists that some Fedora Core mirrors have busted header files. This might be the cause of the problem above.
