Bug 187632 - pirut is unable to retrieve software information
Summary: pirut is unable to retrieve software information
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 187628
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pirut
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-02 01:50 UTC by dipten
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-04-10 18:27:58 UTC
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Description dipten 2006-04-02 01:50:04 UTC
Description of problem:every time i click on add/remove software pirut starts 
and window showing information retrieval comes. after a few second pirut gives 
a message "unable to retrieve software informaton" and i have to exit.this 
also happens when i tried to cnage packages after first boot. also when i 
tried to install some extra packages the same message was shown.


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Actual results:pirut messages"unable to retrieve software information".


Expected results:pirut should allow package management.


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Comment 1 Jorge Urdaneta 2006-04-06 13:39:28 UTC
same problem here.

I just updated my fc4 installation and now i wanna add some of the new cool
packages from fc5 and pirut doesn't work.

The message is something like "i unable to retrieve software information: core"

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2006-04-10 18:27:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187628 ***


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