Thanks Guys, You guys gave me a lot of reading! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Dov Zamir On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 18:55, Clint Harshaw wrote: > Dov Zamir wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am more or less a newb (I last tried Linux about 10 years ago). I > > installed RH9 and then upgraded to FC1. My hardware is an ECS K7SOM+ > > (thatÅ a SIS730 chipset) with an AMD processor with 256MB RAM. > > Welcome to Fedora! > > > > > I originally installed everything, planning to prune what I don need as > > time goes on. But when I try to uninstall packages, like the development > > packages, I get an error message saying that I have to install about a > > dozen different packages before I can uninstall? Any ideas whatÅ going > > on? > > My initial thought is that you may want to use an application named yum > to handle the dependencies for you. I can recommend these resources to > help with yum: > > http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#InstallSoftware > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg03379.html > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/ > > Once you get yum set up properly with mirrors (or simply copy the > yum.conf found at the artoo site to /etc/yum.conf) you can uninstall > packages simply by typing yum remove packagename. > > > Also (maybe this should be in a different thread, but then again it may > > be related) I cant get Java to run under Mozilla. It is installed, and I > > even tried to install the run-time from SUN, but it still doesnt work. > > Mozilla is configured to use the Java plug-in, but I just see the icon > > for uninstalled plugins, and an error message stating that I need the > > java plugin. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Dov Zamir > > Linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Here's what you need: > http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#Java > > I've used those instructions for installing Java (some with the > developer's kit, and some with just the runtime environment) on FC1 > machines, and the instructions are well-written for this newcomer, so I > can recommend them to you as well. > > Clint >
