Catharsis - slowly my FC4 world crumbles around me

[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:39 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 02:07 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
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>>>> > Recently isntalled FC4, not expecting it to do great things, but 
>>>> > thinking it would at least work. When I first installed, it seemed to 
>>>> > have a few problems, but I thought I could seek out help on the internet 
>>>> > and get them resolved and then settle into the new OS environment.
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>What were you running before?  How about trying a multi-boot environment
>with a more stable version such as FC3 or CentOS4, and leave the FC4
>stuff to age a bit before giving up entirely.
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>>>> > The Add/Remove Applications manager does not work at all.
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>>> config-system-packages? Very strange. What error are you getting?
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>To my knowledge system-config-packages has NEVER worked once you have
>installed updates.  Only works on the basic installation before updates,
>unless it has been fixed recently.  Ought to either be fixed or
>disappear after the first updates are done.  This was pointed out in
>your earlier thread "Can't add or remove packages in FC4".  My $0.02:
>use yum for updates/package-installation.  Not as pretty, but it
>generally works well.
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>Phil
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Not seeing any problem here.  Fired up system-config-packages with no 
problem, removed gaim with it.  Exited the program and then restarted it 
and installed gftp (I prefer ncftp from the command line so the purpose 
was just to make sure could install a package).  This system was 
upgraded from FC3 using the FC4 iso images and is current with regard to 
updates.

Dave