Help: No internet connection

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 20:40 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote:
> On 12/14/2009 05:58 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:

> 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...
----
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


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