old-school
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Jan 11 02:10:30 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 18:41 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 12:49 -0800, Rickey Moore wrote:
> >
> >
> > Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> > Rickey Moore wrote:
> > >
> > >
> >
> > If you want software from a different repository, it is as
> > simple as
> > enabling the repository and getting a list of applications. It
> > is
> > time for you to do some reading up on yum. It is allot
> > different and
> > nicer than the old download, install what will install,
> > download the
> > dependencies and install what will install ......
> > Sorry, what I failed to mention was that I'm using my roommate's
> > Windoz machine for file dnloads and <shudder> yahoo to get email. He's
> > got DSL, so we just added a network hub, and since Sprint uses pppoe
> > I'm wildly updating to just get the sucker to get the ipadd! ress's
> > and nameservers. Then I'm burning all these updates to CD's and
> > transporting them physically to my Fedora machine, kinda like all at
> > once! <smile> Trouble shooting with a shotgun...
> >
> > So, that's why I was looking for update instructions for humans to
> > read. I know I'll just love yum once I get to the net... I updated
> > KDE to use the new network manager and some pppoe deamons that I
> > found. Uptodate used to make me crazy. I do love Linux though, and
> > have great plans for using it.
> >
> > Thanx for any considerations, Ric
> ----
> FC-4 represented a large jump in various items and the initial
> installation was pretty buggy. Consequently a lot of updates are
> required to make it function properly.
>
> You really need internet access to get the updates installed as it would
> be a large project to get the updates installed by hand.
>
Not to mention that they still need downloaded. :)
> Craig
>
>
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