Some problems getting started

[Dov Zamir]

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
>