Some problems getting started

G. Gunther Wallen gunny at thewallens.net
Wed Apr 7 22:37:10 UTC 2004


It's just easier to me to choose repositories with RC's interface.
Synaptic is indeed sweet but I think RC is cleaner.
I haven't had any GPG key issues with RC.



On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:00, duncan brown wrote:
> ok, now i feel like a jerk =]  i'll retract what i just said, i just RTFA =]
> 
> so you can use apt with red carpet 2 now?  that's pretty nice.  but what's the advantage of rc over apt/synaptic?  does it automatically import the GPG key from the repositories for you?  that's something that synaptic/apt/yum really need to integrate.  
> 
> -d
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "G. Gunther Wallen" <gunny at thewallens.net>
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:45:43 -0400
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Some problems getting started
> 
> > 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+
> > > > (thatà 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 whatà 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
> > > 
> > 
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