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Hi,

I have installed Mageia 5 recently. When I try to install some packages in the Software Management I get this error message

1 installation transactions failed
There was a problem during the installation:
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 28
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 28
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 28

Is there any idea what does this mean and how to cure this problem?

Thanks
oliver

It means the downloader could not access the mirror that is configured to download software packages. Is internet access working in general?

Please show the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

thank for reply.

the internet works in general.

this is the output of the commad:

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Core Release /mnt/hd/x86_64/media/core
Nonfree Release /mnt/hd/x86_64/media/nonfree
Core Release (distrib1) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/release
Core Updates (distrib3) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/updates
Nonfree Release (distrib11) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree Updates (distrib13) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates
Core 32bit Release (distrib31) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/core/release
Core 32bit Updates (distrib32) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/core/updates
Nonfree 32bit Release (distrib36) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree 32bit Updates (distrib37) http://mirror.netcologne.de/mageia/distrib/5/i586/media/nonfree/updates

And if you run the following command as root to refresh the repository data, and then try again?

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urpmi.update -av

But I'd suggest the following, remove all repositories and add a complete set of new ones
And in the process disable both of the two first repos that have been copied onto your harddisk during installation (that is, if you don't want to use them)

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urpmi.removemedia -a
drakrpm-edit-media

-> File -> Add a specific media mirror -> choose one of the FTP mirrors near your location.

Please first read https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_a ... rrectly.3F
and maybe https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Install_medi ... _beginners to get started with software management in Mageia.

thanks for all help.


the problem was more banal. Namely, I didn't set the proxy in the


Configure media sources for install and update>Options>Proxy

Please ovince, don't forget to mark the topic [SOLVED].
You can do so, by editing the subject/title in the first message in this topic.
Write [SOLVED] to the left of subject/title, thanks ahead.

done. thanks for reminding me