Thanks to the keen eye of AdmJo - It appears that the Maemo Extras repository issue can be easily fixed!

One only needs to change the url in the application catalog to:

http://repostory.maemo.org/extras/

Basically, you'll just remove the letter "I" in repository.

Yay!

NOTE: The above is a TEMPORARY workaround.
If you edit your repository entries you'll likely need to undo the change sometime later when they fix the server issue at maemo. Just keep that in mind if it suddenly STOPS working... that may mean it is time to change it back again.

Here's admjo's original post, if you want to add your "Thanks!" to him.



Update:

No need to edit your existing repository entries! Below is a "Click to install!" that will add the needed changes as two new "TEMPORARY" repositories to your Application Manager. When maemo gets fixed you can just delete these two repositories.






For anyone who might worry about what you are downloading/installing from my link, here's the (very simple) contents:

I may be wrong but a few repos need that 'i' dropped.

I needed to do it for the one above and the extra-devel and also the maemo chinook one.

will be a bit of trial and error for each person, if a repo is giving errors, dropped the 'i' and refresh again to see if that resolves problem, if not add the 'i' back again etc

good luck and thanks guys!

You can also become root and do this:

echo 62.61.85.32 repository.maemo.org >> /etc/hosts

As long as nokia doesn't change the server address it will work for all repos at once.

That solution is going to be harder to UNDO for most people if Nokia ever changes the server IP address. Changing it in the App Manager is probably a better solution for most unless they are comfortable with editing files using vi later.

so what is this a DNS/hostname error, or is the repostory.maemo.org an actve/active failover? (note my delicious pun...)

Yes! Python at last!

Happy Hackmas!

Edited my post #2 to add a "Click to Install!" way to do this.

Thanks PCQ for putting AdmJo's burried post up front where it was needed.

And thanks JoAnne the sys admin with 1 post(guess ) for the Sunday work around.

Also Tech: Will future updates to apps installed this way complain of not coming from the same source?

True, if you don't know what it's doing, don't do it.

^ absolute rule for working as root, BTW

(If you did it already, you can edit your /etc/hosts file with something like joe or pico. Find the line - likely at the end - and remove it. If you prefer vi, why are you reading these instructions?)