The updated Package Manager will fix the problem. I found a post before that detailed a problem installing packages from cd and suggested installing the updated Package Manager. I did. I can now install packages from the cd's and I have had no other problems. Charles On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 06:12, Denis Arnaud wrote: > Hello Bryan, > > > (a) in the main menu, select System Settings | Add/Remove Appolications > > (b) the system checks what I have and gives me a list of things to > > tick and untick, etc. No problem. > > (c) I tick xpdf to install that - nothing else. > > (d) I click Update and the system tells me how many packages are > > queued for installation. Up to now, no problem. > > (e) I click continue and the system gives me a message saying disk 2 > > is needed. > > (f) I put in disk 2, click OK and get an error message and it closes. > > > > > > > I've installed Fedora Core 1 yesterday, and got exactly the same error > when trying to install packages. I some cases, even, the > redhat-config-packages hanged forever and I had to kill it manually. > I've tried to install a few RPMs directly from the FC1 CDs, and it > worked for a few RPMs. After that, the package manager stalled. I had to > kill it manually. > The only way I've found to install the RPMs from the FC1 CDs is to check > the "All packages" box when installing FC1. > > I've also tried to use the up2date tool, but found that the GPG Key for > the glibc-common.xxx.rpm was corrupted (sic!) and did not dare to > install it further. > > Has anyone else found out what was wrong with the FC1 Package Manager? > > I've noticed, though, that there is an updated version of that Package > Manager in the test updates > (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1.noarch.rpm), > but I've not tried to install it. > > Denis > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
