Progress with F9 on EeePC 701 (was Re: strange error)

[Beartooth]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:58:18 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
	[...]
> 	If I could only somehow get pirut, it would help a lot. Yum
> doesn't have any sort of force option, afaict; I thought maybe pirut'd
> be in livna. I installed the F9 livna rpm, and tried "yum install
> pirut," but it still only told me I already had packagekit.
> 
> 	What's so wrong with having both?? One of my PCs does; but I
> can't remember how I got it there ...
> 
> 	[LATER] Having installed Opera on the EeePC, I managed to google
> up a pirut noarch rpm at rpmfind; downloaded it; tried to -ivh it; got a
> dependency for "comps-extras"; told yum to install that, which it did;
> tried rpm -ivh again -- and got a thing I haven't seen before : a notice
> that it *conflicts* with some *unnamed* file in packagekit.
> 
> 	Other people online claim to have removed package kit; I'm going
> to try.

	Well, I don't have both. I did try "yum remove gnome-packagekit," 
and it not only did it, but took nothing else with it. So I ran rpm -ivh 
again, and this time pirut did install. 

	What's more, it launches, runs, and works. I have both added and 
removed things.

> 	At this point, I'm down to 50.2% file usage, according to baobab,
> and can start emulating amorous porcupines while I copy data of my own
> back in. But I'd a lot rather pare that down somewhere well below 50%,
> and then try.

	Installing pirut instead of packagekit cut me back from 50.2% of 
the 6.4 GB which baobab can see of my nominal 8 GB, to 50% even. Iow, 
pirut is about 100 MB smaller than packagekit -- hence better for this 
hardware in that way at least.

	As a precaution, once pirut completes doing my changes (almost 
all removals) from among its first two categories (Desktop Environments 
and Applications), I'll do another yum update, and then a reboot. (I once 
destroyed an install of F8 on this machine by getting too eager for too 
long with pirut.)

	[Later] Even though the little notifier (which I have tried to 
remove from the panel, unsuccessfully till I removed packagekit from the 
machine) showed hundreds of updates waiting, yum updated propoposed only 
to replace pirut with packagekit. I told it NO, in thunder. I'll have to 
either find a way to exclude pirut from updates, or learn to use it to do 
them, or both, till I get ready to have packagekit back -- id est, till 
I'm done pruning. Dammitall.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.