Fedora Core 2 and up2date

Jim Higson jh at 333.org
Thu Dec 9 19:26:25 UTC 2004


On Thursday 09 Dec 2004 19:17, J. Michael Morse wrote:
> Fedora Core 2
> -----000--------
>
> To make a long story short - I botched part of my
> system by removing slang.  Now, I can no longer
> access the Add/Remove packages (nor anything
> else that needed slang) from my menu.  Actually,
> I can access it - it asks me for a password and I
> enter root's password but then the windows just
> closes.
>
> I reinstalled slang and then up2date from an rpm but
> now I only have access to the command line.  I have
> the original FC2 cd but it doesn't seem to be of much
> help unless I want to do a complete reinstall.
>
> When I googled for 'fedora core 2 up2date' I got the
> link below:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/up2date.html
>
> but again, this is only a command line version.
> Where can I get the GUI for it?

Could you not just use the command line to install the bits you removed, and 
then use the GUI for whatever else you need to do?

yum install slang

-- 
Jim




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