After installing dropbox from the RPM package availble on the site on a new Fedora 15 install, I was unable to use yum without coming across this error:
$ update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml
Trying other mirror.
http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Dropbox. Please verify its path and try again
For some unknown reason dropbox repos dont seem to work past 13 so you’ll need to change the dropbox.repo file from detecting the current release to 13 like so:
Open the dropbox.repo file:
sudo gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dropbox.repo
Change the baseurl from $relesever to 13 like so:
Original:
[Dropbox]
name=Dropbox Repository
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
gpgkey=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
New:
[Dropbox]
name=Dropbox Repository
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/13/
gpgkey=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
Save and close and everything should be working, try using sudo yum update to check and the error should have gone away. If not give a reboot a try.
Thank you!
so cool, thanks a lot.
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This site isn’t working
http://linux.dropbox.com
So, I guess there’s no way to update Dropbox
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Thanks a lot, this is my first time with Fedora and I’m loving it. Again thanks, this helped a lot.
Thanks a bunch! Really appreciate it!
thank you!!!
Thank you!
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i had the same problem, I’m using CenOS6, once i had the same error message and after did the steps mention above it solved. but after few days i only did “yum clean all”, after that i had the same error again, try this steps several times, reboot the machine but no response. please help me to solve this.
thanks.
muy buena la informacion grax
I am getting an error of this sort when I am running the command yum install gcc -y
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
How do I resolve this error.Can you please tell me?
Ajit
flow this step
# cat /etc/redhat-release
# yum list
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# ls
# ls -al
# mkdir /root/yum.repos.d
# mv dag.repo /root/yum.repos.d/
# mv rpmforge.repo /root/yum.repos.d/
# yum list
# ls -al /root/yum.repos.d/
In some areas as China, https is also required.
We know the installation details, please provide the solution for the below error.
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
Nice, quick and easy. Thanks, OP!
–Happened to me on CentOS 6.3 x64 after installing DropBox.
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worked pefetly…. tryed to fix it for about an hour before I stumbled on you post
THANKS a MILLION
Thank you!
Thank you – the fix for Dropbox and Yum worked perfectly.
The problem happened on my PC was “Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: heimu. Please verify its path and try again”,this problem happened many times when I wanted to use yum to install something.Who could tell me what “heimu” is and how to fix it.
thanks alot
This seems to work even on fedora 19 .. Thank you
Thanks. This error was coming for so long now for me.
Thank you very very very much! You saved so much my time! I was trying to fix it different ways already 2 hours before I have found this post. THANK YOU!!!! I WISH YOU THE BEST THING YOU WANT, BROTHER!
please suggest any one to solve this error coming in my system.
http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for Dropbox: Damaged repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Dropbox. Please verify its path and try again
It works! Thank you very much!