Paul Howarth wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
nick wrote:
I've just installed Fedora and have run the updates.
Which version of Fedora?
> But Im having
probelms to install additional pacakges in package management in gnome. I get an error message say; Packages no found The follwing packages could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until they are installed.
Don't use the "Add/Remove Packages" tool (system-config-packages); it gets broken after you've done the updates. Better to use yum instead.
Hmmm. Any details on the system-config-packages problems? It's always worked just fine for me...
After installing updates, it gets confused by dependencies because the updated packages are not the ones it expects to be there to satisfy dependencies for the to-be-installed packages.
I didn't think it would expect anything in particular, except what the rpm database tells it to. But I guess there must be a bug somewhere. Never encountered it myself, though.
Examples: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=140204 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=121389
A new program called "pup" is supposed to be replacing system-config-packages in FC4. It's a proper GUI for yum.
What I like about system-install-packages is that it essentially gives me the same package view as the system installer, and lets me work on the same package groups, but perhaps yum can also do the same thing nowadays? And how about direct installation of a simple package list? Will the new GUI be able to do that, too?
- Toralf
