> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:14:44PM +0000, Peter Cannon wrote: >> On Friday 19 November 2004 13:05, Axel Thimm wrote: >> >> > That is bug http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=289 >> > >> > with the workaround >> > >> > yum install flac libFLAC4 libFLAC++2 libOggFLAC1 >> > >> > or using the old yum, or apt-get. >> >> Oh, OK, I'm happy now, are you saying my system has a bug? or have I fixed it >> (I know you cant answer that without seeing the thing) > > No, your system has no bug, the new yum has sometimes troubles finding > the right packages. Even though the packages are there it does not > resolve a transaction to install them, so you either have to tell yum > manually, or use another tool like yum20 or apt. > >> I would have preferred to use synaptic with apt-get but I don't want to go >> back to the state I was in under FC2 I had used up2date, yum and apt-get all >> together and was never very happy with what was and wasn't installed in fact >> although it worked (and at the moment better than FC3) I had lots of half >> loaded stuff and other bits of dross all over the place so after 2yrs of use >> I wiped it and did a fresh install with FC3 so I was initially a bit upset >> that I had messed it up but everything seems fine now. > > The tools should not interfere (unless you start them concurrently), > so you are safe to use them together. synaptic is really a nice UI for > checking out uninstalled packages, and simply clicking them onto your > system. > -- also, for yum you have yumi (or gyum) as a very nice gui for yum. I have not yet tested, if it works with the latest version of yum. Roger
