[PLUG] Help|Contents

[Ed Sawicki]

Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Monday 20 November 2006 13:09, Ed Sawicki wrote:
>> Carla Schroder wrote:
>>> On Monday 20 November 2006 12:00, Ed Sawicki wrote:
>>>> I'm running Fedora Core 5 with Gnome. When I click on
>>>> Help|Contents for any graphical application, nothing
>>>> appears. I'm on a deadline so I don't have the time now
>>>> to search for answers. I'm hoping someone here can give
>>>> me a quick answer.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>> My guess is the help docs didn't get installed. Usually they're separate
>>> packages, so yum search [packagename] ought to find them.
>> This resulted in:
>>
>> ...
>> Setting up repositories
>> core
>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo:core
>>
>>
>> Now the Gnome Applications | Add/Remove Software
>> is also broken.
> 
> Most likely this means the servers in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ are down, or your 
> config files are goobered. You should have a fedora.repo file that looks 
> something like this:
> 
> [base-i386]
> name=base-i386
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/
> gpgcheck=1
> enabled=1
> 
> Every repository needs a separate configuration file. 
> 
> This is a good page on configuring Yum repositories:
> http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford/linux/yum_summary.html
> 

Yes, it started working a while later. The original problem
is the same though - nothing appears when I click on help
for ANY graphical program. I guess it's time to reinstall -
no time to troubleshoot.

Ed