Instead of yum, I suggest checking out redcarpet from Ximian. check this thread at arstechnica.com to get started: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=96509133&m=51300801855 On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:11, William Hooper wrote: > Dov Zamir said: > > 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. > > > > 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? > > This sounds like you are trying to use the "Add/Remove Packages" > (redhat-config-packages). This program has a limitation in that it only > knows about the packages on the original CDs. As you do the normal > updates, r-c-p's idea of reality and what you have installed gets further > out of sync. > > As others have suggested: > Installing everything isn't a good starting point > Yum is a more reliable after packages have been upgraded from their > original version. > > -- > William Hooper >
