g wrote on 01/11/2011 11:58 AM: > ... > i imagine RHN is in repos list for those using sl and are registered > users. Not sure why a registered RHEL user would be using SL repos. > ... > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > http://mirrors.redhat.com/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386/ error was The mirrorlist line in my /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo looks like: mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch You can download the epel-release-5-4 package from a mirror such as http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm and install with rpm, checking for /etc/yum.repos.d/epel*.repo.rpm* files and replacing the bad repo definitions with the new version[s]. Phil