Monday, March 4, 2013

damaged repomd.xml file on fedora


Error while installing a package on Fedora using yum:

Loaded plugins: axelget, fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Error importing repomd.xml from fedora/17/x86_64: Damaged repomd.xml file

Solution:

sudo yum clean all
Loaded plugins: axelget, fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Cleaning repos: adobe-linux-x86_64 fedora google-chrome missingboxstudio missingboxstudio-Updates rpmfusion-free rpmfusion-free-rawhide rpmfusion-free-updates updates
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
24 delta-package files removed by presto

After this I was able to install using yum