https://www.stress-free.co.nz/tech/centos en https://www.stress-free.co.nz/fixing_yums_metadata_file_does_not_match_checksum_error <div class="field-body"> <p><a href="http://centos.org/">Centos</a> is a "free" distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux which I enjoy using. Whilst it does not have Debian's apt-get for package management it does have <a href="http://yum.baseurl.org/">yum</a>, which is not as fast but still works pretty well in most circumstances. Unfortunately today I ran into a problem in a clean install of Centos 5.3 where yum was returning the following error:</p> <p><strong>Error Message: Metadata file does not match checksum</strong></p> <p>A quick look around "<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/google_launches_the_google">the Google</a>" turned up the relatively simple solution; at the terminal execute as root:</p> <p class="codesnippet">yum clean all<br /> yum makecache<br /> yum update</p> <p>This process will take a little time, but the end result should be a nice, clean yum repository cache, complete with no annoying meta-data errors.</p> <p> </p> <!--break--> </div> <ul class="field-taxonomy-vocabulary-1"> <li> <a href="/tech/linux">linux</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tutorials">software tutorials</a> </li> <li> <a href="/tech/centos">centos</a> </li> </ul> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:21:30 +0000 David 542 at https://www.stress-free.co.nz