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I have several Fedora 13 servers that have to connect through an http proxy for yum updates. All port 80 traffic has to be routed through this proxy. I have setup the proxy server in the network settings GUI. I can browse the internet just fine. I have also setup my proxy information in /etc/yum.conf as follows: proxy=http:proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac proxy_user=user proxy_password=password

I then added the export HTTP_PROXY="http:proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac" to /etc/bashrc and sourced the file.

When i run yum update: Loaded plugins:presto, refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) fro repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again.

All of the repo urls are the defaults, as this is a fresh install.

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Use ntlmaps proxy. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntlmaps/ configure it, run it (you need python on your box) and put something like 

in your yum.conf (port number may be different, depending on your configuration).

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http:proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac is not a valid URL, shouldn't it be http://proxy.largecorp.corp/accelerated_pac_base.pac?

Apart from this, you should try to explicitely state which proxy yum needs to use, instead of pointing it to an auto-configuration URL like the one you're using; something like


Just look up your actual proxy settings and use them.

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That was a typo on my part. –  eodchop Jun 3 '10 at 12:19

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