Having originally installed FC3/Gnome from the CDs and selected the "Desktop" configuration, I would now like to add some of the apps from the "Workstation" configuration (specifically, the s/w development tools).
As root, I go to Applications | System Settings | Add/Remove Applications, let it do it's thing, and then select the relevant package choices. (I'm not drilling down and trying to second-guess it's default selections.)
The "Add/Remove Applications" tool is basically broken - it falls over once you've installed updated packages. Solution: use yum or up2date instead.
Now, when it is going through it's dependency checks, it tells me there are a number of things that need to be installed first. But when I do an "rpm -q <packagename>" I get a message that it's installed.
Can anyone tell me a) what I'm doing wrong or b) assuming the answer is "nothing" tell me how to 1) get around the issue, 2) force it to install whatever it needs first, and/or 3) suggest a better way of getting the packages installed?
Try: # yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
By default this will download the packages from the Internet. If you've got plenty of disk space, you could try setting up a local [base] repository based on your CD contents, e.g. using the method shown at http://fedoranews.org/contributors/remco_veldkamp/repository/
Paul.
