Re: yum losing it´s flavour?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Sep 23 06:49:11 UTC 2006


On 9/23/06, anthony baldwin <anthonybaldwin at optonline.net> wrote:
>  I have to say...within the past week I have attempted several fresh
> installs of FC5,
> and everytime I run a yum update on anything, something breaks.
> What the heck is going on?
>
> I ha installed FC5 on the 80gb drive I had that just bought the farm in,
> hmmmm, July.
> I had updated everything, and the system was all happy and smiley until
> the hdd went last week.
> But now, suddenlym I can´t install and update FC5 without breaking stuff...
> I DLing Kubuntu right now...
> My work and my business  (document translation) depend on my computer,
> and this crap is costing
> me time, sleep, and money.
>
> I´ve been using RH or FC since RH7.1, and I´ve never had so much trouble
> just getting a system up and running.
>
> I don´t know...I still have some FC3 discs here, but I don´t want to go
> backwards.
> I don´t want to install FC5 and not be able to update stuff, even.  I
> like everything up to date.
> I´m getting headaches with all of this...
> Sounds like more of a rant than a support request or anything valid, hein?
> I have been all gushy and lovey about FC and RH for years...Suddenly, I
> don´t know.
> I mean, I´m not doing anything different than I have for the past
> several years...but I´m not
> getting the same happy results I´m used to getting.
>
> tony


Why not download a respin and update that...lot less work.

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