On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:28:38 -0800, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:39:09 -0800, Dave
> <fedora-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:01 am, Kam Leo wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It's a bug in yum. I've had this happen many times to me. Yum goes
> > > off to check dependencies and then exits. Just run 'yum update' again
> > > and everything will install.
> >
> > After three tries, it still hadn't ... but I'll try it again, then try "yum
> > update yum" and go again. I'm assuming it's better to be in runlevel 3 so
> > X/KDE/etc aren't running?
> >
>
> Depending on its setting SELinux may have an impact.; X/KDE/Gnome
> should have no impact on yum. I prefer using yum over up2date because
> I don't want to be bothered with clicking through the up2date dialogs.
> I open a terminal in KDE or Gnome and let yum take care of the
> updates.
>
> If you continue having difficulties upgrading yum with yum don't beat
> yourself over the head, install what you got in the cache using "rpm
> -ivh *.rpm". The important part is to get your system in working
^
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Ops, should be "rpm -uvh *.rpm"
> order. You can attend to yum at a later time. Try apt-get or smart,
> http://smartpm.org , as alternatives.
>
