Some problems getting started
Dov Zamir
Linux at zamirfamily.com
Wed Apr 7 16:03:35 UTC 2004
Thanks Guys,
You guys gave me a lot of reading! Thanks for pointing me in the right
direction.
Dov Zamir
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 18:55, Clint Harshaw wrote:
> Dov Zamir wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am more or less a newb (I last tried Linux about 10 years ago). I
> > installed RH9 and then upgraded to FC1. My hardware is an ECS K7SOM+
> > (thatś a SIS730 chipset) with an AMD processor with 256MB RAM.
>
> Welcome to Fedora!
>
> >
> > I originally installed everything, planning to prune what I don need as
> > time goes on. But when I try to uninstall packages, like the development
> > packages, I get an error message saying that I have to install about a
> > dozen different packages before I can uninstall? Any ideas whatś going
> > on?
>
> My initial thought is that you may want to use an application named yum
> to handle the dependencies for you. I can recommend these resources to
> help with yum:
>
> http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#InstallSoftware
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg03379.html
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
>
> Once you get yum set up properly with mirrors (or simply copy the
> yum.conf found at the artoo site to /etc/yum.conf) you can uninstall
> packages simply by typing yum remove packagename.
>
> > Also (maybe this should be in a different thread, but then again it may
> > be related) I cant get Java to run under Mozilla. It is installed, and I
> > even tried to install the run-time from SUN, but it still doesnt work.
> > Mozilla is configured to use the Java plug-in, but I just see the icon
> > for uninstalled plugins, and an error message stating that I need the
> > java plugin.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Dov Zamir
> > Linux at zamirfamily.com
>
> Here's what you need:
> http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#Java
>
> I've used those instructions for installing Java (some with the
> developer's kit, and some with just the runtime environment) on FC1
> machines, and the instructions are well-written for this newcomer, so I
> can recommend them to you as well.
>
> Clint
>
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