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[Simon Schneebeli]

On 12/14/2009 08:52 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 20:40 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote:
>    
>> On 12/14/2009 05:58 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
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>> As for wicd: I used that when working with Ubuntu and was always quite
>> happy. So let's give it a try:
>>
>> I downloaded wicd from here: http://atrpms.net/dist/f12/wicd/
>>
>> It tells me the following:
>> python-urwid is needed by package wicd-1.6.2.2-1.fc12.i686
>> (/wicd-1.6.2.2-1.fc12.i686)
>>
>> So I get python-urwid from http://atrpms.net/dist/f12/python-urwid/
>>
>> Test Transaction Errors:   file
>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urwid-0.9.8.4-py2.6.egg-info from
>> install of python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.fc12.i686 conflicts with file from
>> package urwid-0.9.8.4-6.1.i386
>>     file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urwid/__init__.py from install
>> of python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.fc12.i686 conflicts with file from package
>> urwid-0.9.8.4-6.1.i386
>>     file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urwid/__init__.pyc from install
>> of python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.fc12.i686 conflicts with file from package
>> urwid-0.9.8.4-6.1.i386
>>     file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urwid/canvas.py from install of
>> python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.fc12.i686 conflicts with file from package
>> urwid-0.9.8.4-6.1.i386
>>     file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urwid/canvas.pyc from install
>> of python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.fc12.i686 conflicts with file from package
>> urwid-0.9.8.4-6.1.i386
>>     file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urwid/curses_display.py from
>> install of python-urwid-0.9.8.4-3.fc12.i686 conflicts with file from
>> package urwid-0.9.8.4-6.1.i386
>>     file...
>>
>> My, my. What a headache. These thing make me feel kind of lost...
>>      
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> Geoff's advice to use wicd just creates another layer of headache that
> is unnecessary here. Forget installing the packages from Axel (atrpms)
> until you get comfortable with Fedora and repositories.
>
> Craig
>
>
>    
My experience with wicd on Ubuntu was actually really good, so if there 
is an easy way to do it on my computer and if furthermore this could 
help solve my problem, I'd be more than willing to give it a try.

Simon