Yumex error

Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 14:42:21 UTC 2005


2005/11/22, Hrishikesh Ballal <hballal at gmail.com>:
> The problem might be the fact that you are trying to install too many
> packages at once. I tried to install using xmms* and bmp* and it
> installted fine. A lot of the dependencies were already installed on
> my computer. You can try going step by step  by first installing xmms
> then installing the skins then the plugins. I could not replicate the
> error so I am just guessing.
> Hrishi
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:04:38 +1000
> > From: david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au>
> > Subject: Re: Yumex error
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <4382B4F6.5000106 at yahoo.com.au>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > david walcroft wrote:
> > > Hrishikesh Ballal wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello David, Can you please tell me what package are you trying to
> > >> install? Hrishi
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 06:43 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Message: 1
> > >>> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:46:23 +1000
> > >>> From: david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au>
> > >>> Subject: Yumex error
> > >>> To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > >>> Message-ID: <4381976F.1090403 at yahoo.com.au>
> > >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> > >>>
> > >>> Would anybody know what this error means "error in transaction"
> > >>> its happening every time I try downloading a file and the 'output'
> > >>> screen says nothing,so I get no downloads.
> > >>> Yum works but not Yumex
> > >>>  Thanks david
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I  tried to d/l bmp* and xmms* (15 or so files) so I don't know which it
> > > is causing trouble,yum itself is running well,which makes me think it's
> > > Yumex.
> > >
> > >   david
> > >
> > Seems ridiculous but it took 3hrs before the first reply logged hence a
> > second mail,sorry
> >
> >     david
> >
> >
> >
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sounds like a bug to me. while a workaround might be to do it "step by
step" its still a bug and should be reported upstream if theres really
a limit of the packages that can be handled at once. bugs like that
should be fixed not just worked around.

regards,
Rudolf Kastl




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