--- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> >
> > I'm running FC 4 with the latest kernel.
> > My desire was to have the ability to input
> Japanese, but before I can
> > even get to that, I have a more fundamental
> problem. When I went to
> > Desktp | System Settings | Add/Remove Packages to
> install multilingual
> > support, and selected the languages that I wanted
> to isntall, it said I
> > had to install iiimf drivers first. I went on to
> the web to see if I
> > could download these drivers, but despite finding
> information about them
> > on Red Hat's site for Fedora, it wasn't as simple
> as finding an RPM and
> > downloading it.
> >
> > In any case, I later decided that I wanted to
> remove some programs that
> > might be causing problems with my DVD (which is
> another issue). But when
> > I selected to remove certain applications (like
> Totem), again the
> > Add/Remove Packages interface told me I had to
> have certain packages
> > installed before it could do anything.
> > Huh? Why do I need packages to *remove* things.
> >
> > After a little more experimentation, it seems that
> I can neither add nor
> > remove *anything*. It always gives me a list of
> packages that I need to
> > have available before it will update.
> >
> > The result is that I can not make any changes to
> my system. What can be
> > done about this?
>
> Sounds like system-config-packages may be as broken
> in FC4 as it was in FC3.
>
> Try using yum instead. If you really want a GUI, try
> "yum install yumex"
> (yumex is in Extras) and you should then be able to
> install and remove
> packages using yumex. Another GUI for yum is called
> kyum, also in Extras.
>
> Paul.
>
I don't know if this is related or not but I had
a weird problem with rpm last night.
I installed the gnuchess program from the Fedora
Extras and this is what happen:
rpm -iv gnuchess-*
Everyting installed without errors.
Tried to run program unde KDE & Gnome
to no avail.
Went to remove the pacakage via
rpm -ev gnuchess-*
it told me that the package was not
installed.
Ran another rpm -iv ... and rpm told me that
the package was already installed.
Huh?
Ran rpm --rebuilddb
The rpm system still things that the package
in not installed ( -e ) and installed ( -i )
at the same time.
I wound up doing a rpm -qpl gnuchess-* and removed
the files/dirs myself by hand .... :-(
