[wplug] Code 6 Package Manager

[Jonathan Billings]

Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> When I open PM, I get an error message saying that it cannot access the 
> network.  Clearing the error window closes PM.  The PC has internet 
> access and I set the network proxy and authentication config.  It cannot 
> access company network drives but does have internet access if it is 
> using the username/password from the authentication info.

Package Manager (pirut) is just a graphical front end interface to 
'yum'.  Most likely, it is trying to update the list of packages when it 
starts up, and since your yum configuration has network repositories in 
it, it will only work if it can access the network.

It will need to have proxy information stored in /etc/yum.conf, 
otherwise it won't be able to use the network.

Either you need to set yum to use the proxy, or install the package 
manually using command line tools such as 'rpm' or 'yum'.  What would 
you prefer?

I also suggest using the 'yumex' graphical package manager, it'll give 
you much more flexibility.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>