Thanks for getting back to me on this.... Jim Perrin wrote: > On 6/18/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > >> kbs-CentOS-Misc >> >> http://centos.karan.org/el5/misc/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: >> --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > > Doesn't exist. Extras is there. You'll note that > http://centos.karan.org makes no mention at all of the Misc repo. Just > because it was there for c4 doesn't mean it'll be there for c5. Well it says: " On CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 ( yum version 2.2 and higher ) : Download file : kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo <http://centos.karan.org/kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo> and save it in /etc/yum.repos.d/" And that is what I did, so there may be a bit of contrary info here. > >> contrib >> >> Failure getting >> http://centosn.centos.org/centos/5/contrib/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: >> --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > > Contrib has never existed, though it's included in the > Centos-Base.repo file. You can safely comment the entire bit out for > this repo. It's not used. OK. > >> >> what is the correct source for c5-media instead of: >> >> [c5-media] >> name=CentOS-$releasever - Media >> baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/ >> file:///media/cdrom/ >> file:///media/cdrecorder/ > > That is the right one. Only thing you're missing there are the > gpgcheck, and enabled=0 lines. um. Oh. Now I get it. I thought 'media' meant a repo of media apps! Silly me...