Paul Howarth wrote: | | I can't see what yum is trying to do at the moment. It appears | to be trying to install koffice and koffice-devel versions | 4:1.4.1-0.1.fc4.kde but those already appear to be installed on | your system. | | Are you on an x86_64 box by any chance? | You know, this started looking more and more strange, the more I poked at it. I decided it would be a lot quicker to just remove the two packages, and let yum reinstall them. I'm already finished, and now I'm doing my yum update which is now going well - all 144 MB of it! And, to answer your question, no, this is not a x86_64 box. I think what 'might' have happened is that I was experimenting with various package managers at one point, and I installed Synaptic which uses apt and different repos; that may have been when I installed koffice, since it had to be installed separately from FC4, since FC distros no longer include koffice. If that theory is correct, it's a good example of why mixing packages from different repos can lead to problems. Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
