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Yum error when installing vsftpd

Hiya,

I just installed RHEL 5.2 and tried to install vsftpd

I receive the following error :

yum install vsftpd -y
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
rhel-i386-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.5 MB 00:02
rhel-i386-: ################################################## 4182/4182
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vsftpd.i386 0:2.0.5-12.el5 set to be updated
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 9.0 MB 00:13
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/filelists.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

All google results suggesting using

yum clean all (done that)
yum clean metadata (done that)
and
yum -y remove yum-fastestmirror (doesn't exist)

But still no go .. we tried from source as well, but it fails with all sorts of errors and on a supported RH system I want to avoid using source packages anyway otherwise yum update won't catch upgrades for it ..

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titanmike

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He, didn't think of that (downloading the rpm that is)

Thanks ..

All good and installed :)