Some problems getting started

[William Hooper]

Dov Zamir said:
> 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+
> (thatÅ› a SIS730 chipset) with an AMD processor with 256MB RAM.
>
> 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 whatÅ› going
> on?

This sounds like you are trying to use the "Add/Remove Packages"
(redhat-config-packages).  This program has a limitation in that it only
knows about the packages on the original CDs.  As you do the normal
updates, r-c-p's idea of reality and what you have installed gets further
out of sync.

As others have suggested:
Installing everything isn't a good starting point
Yum is a more reliable after packages have been upgraded from their
original version.

-- 
William Hooper