Some problems getting started

[G. Gunther Wallen]

Instead of yum, I suggest checking out redcarpet from Ximian.
check this thread at arstechnica.com to get started:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=96509133&m=51300801855




On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:11, William Hooper wrote:
> 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+
> > (thatÃ… 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 whatÃ… 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
>