Failed installs of RSS reader

Ollie Killingback ollie at techieinblack.info
Tue Jun 13 19:24:47 UTC 2006


I have been resisting using KDE in Fedora, altho' I used it with Mepis
and indeed Akregator was what got me hooked on RSS.  I'll have to bite
the bullet.

Thanks,

OK

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:15 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 23:36, Ollie Killingback wrote:
> > As a new Linux user and newer still to Fedora Core 5 I have twice tried
> > to add a RSS reader to my setup with, for example,  su -c 'yum install
> > rssowl'.
> >
> > Everything seems to be okay - for example last night 79 packages were
> > downloaded and RSSOWL duly appeared in my Internet Apps list.
> >
> > But when I try to run it, it seems to start then crashes.  The same
> > happened with BLAM.
> >
> > Presumably since this occurred twice I am consistently doing something
> > wrong. Help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Ollie K
> 
> I don't know anything abourt rssowl or blam so can't really help with getting 
> them to work. I do however use KDE's akregator and it works fine for me. 
> Should be at start->internet-akregator.
> 




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