REDHAT 5.5 rpm files not found

[geldridg]

I do not see 5.50 directory under http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/ only 5 and 5Client, when I go under 5Client/i386 I see only redhat 5.1 rpm files.

How can I get the installation to use the proper download rpm files?

install failure below...

/etc/yum.repos.d
[root@mbclnt3 yum.repos.d]# yum install virtualbox.repo
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: virtualbox. Please verify its path and try again
[root@mbclnt3 yum.repos.d]#

Current release my client is on...(below)...

[root@mbclnt3 yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.5 (Tikanga)

[root@mbclnt3 yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.5 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m

[frank]

What did you do exactly? You have to put the virtualbox.repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d, then yum update and yum install VirtualBox-4.0. There is only one RHEL5 package and it should work on all RHEL5 distributions.

[geldridg]

yes, I did as you suggested, the problem appears to be that the attempt to utilize the repro file to access the rpm file, it uses my version 5.5 as a directory path.

"http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... repomd.xml"

Since 5.50 does not exist, can not be found.

[frank]

I have no RedHat 5.5 here but I wonder why CentOS 5 behaves differently ...

[frank]

I've added proper links, please try again.

[shea1roh]

I am having the same problem on a CentOS 5.4 install. I placed the repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d & ran 'yum update' but still no luck. Here is the result:

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Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "kmod" plugin
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/%24releasever/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: virtualbox. Please verify its path and try again

[Martin]

Looks like a type in the repo file.
The baseurl line shold be
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... /$basearch
Did you get the repo file from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... albox.repo ?

[shea1roh]

Yes I did download the repo file from the website link you gave, here is the contents of it:

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[virtualbox]
name=RHEL/CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc

But I still get these results when I try to install:

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[virtualbox]
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "kmod" plugin
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/%24releasever/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: virtualbox. Please verify its path and try again

[frank]

I have no idea why your package installer replaces '$' by '%24'. Could you manually replace '$releasever' by '5.5' and test if 'yum update' works?

[shea1roh]

I did that & it works. Thanks

[frank]

So I fear you have to live with that workaround as I don't know why it is required for your system but not for others. Hope that is OK.