Problem with adding packages from CD?
Charles Swarts
lists at msbfr.net
Mon Nov 24 12:25:43 UTC 2003
The updated Package Manager will fix the problem. I found a post before
that detailed a problem installing packages from cd and suggested
installing the updated Package Manager. I did. I can now install
packages from the cd's and I have had no other problems.
Charles
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 06:12, Denis Arnaud wrote:
> Hello Bryan,
>
> > (a) in the main menu, select System Settings | Add/Remove Appolications
> > (b) the system checks what I have and gives me a list of things to
> > tick and untick, etc. No problem.
> > (c) I tick xpdf to install that - nothing else.
> > (d) I click Update and the system tells me how many packages are
> > queued for installation. Up to now, no problem.
> > (e) I click continue and the system gives me a message saying disk 2
> > is needed.
> > (f) I put in disk 2, click OK and get an error message and it closes.
> >
> >
> >
> I've installed Fedora Core 1 yesterday, and got exactly the same error
> when trying to install packages. I some cases, even, the
> redhat-config-packages hanged forever and I had to kill it manually.
> I've tried to install a few RPMs directly from the FC1 CDs, and it
> worked for a few RPMs. After that, the package manager stalled. I had to
> kill it manually.
> The only way I've found to install the RPMs from the FC1 CDs is to check
> the "All packages" box when installing FC1.
>
> I've also tried to use the up2date tool, but found that the GPG Key for
> the glibc-common.xxx.rpm was corrupted (sic!) and did not dare to
> install it further.
>
> Has anyone else found out what was wrong with the FC1 Package Manager?
>
> I've noticed, though, that there is an updated version of that Package
> Manager in the test updates
> (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1.noarch.rpm),
> but I've not tried to install it.
>
> Denis
>
>
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