On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:41, Dan wrote: > Eric Brunson wrote: > > Bruce, > > > > Dude, don't use "Reply" to start a new thread. > > Now your unrelated question is threaded to mine via headers like these: > > > > References: <440DE90F.6040606@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > In-Reply-To: <440DE90F.6040606@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > And I'm less likely to get a useful response now. > > > > Bruce Bales wrote: > >> I recently installed fedora core 3 and have had some difficulties > >> with using yum. Finding many different suggestions on the internet > >> as to which repositories to use is confusing. > >> > >> When I do a sudo yum update, I get a lot of missing dependencies > >> (below). And yum itself won't install them. Many of these same > >> dependencies prevent me from installing certain programs. > >> > >> Where do I find the correct repositories for Fedora core 3? > >> bruce > >> > >> > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libjasper-1.701.so.1 is needed by package > >> kdelibs > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libslp.so.1 is needed by package kdenetwork > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libxmms.so.1 is needed by package kdeutils > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libfribidi.so.0 is needed by package > >> kdegraphics > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libjasper-1.701.so.1 is needed by package > >> ImageMagick > >> Error: Missing Dependency: gnupg2 >= 1.9.6 is needed by package gpgme > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libfltk_gl.so.1.1 is needed by package > >> OpenEXR > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libpth.so.20 is needed by package gpgme > >> Error: Missing Dependency: libfltk.so.1.1 is needed by package OpenEXR > > Yes, send new threads directly to fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx . And as for > the question, there's different opinions on the matter, but generally > you will want to use the base (fedora.repo), updates-released > (fedora-updates.repo), extras (fedora-extras.repo) and livna > (livna.repo) repositories; these are all continually kept compatible > with one another, and only for a few obscure programs you might have to > go to rpmforge repositories or others. You can look at > http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/samples/yum.conf and take the Fedora Extras > and Livna.org sections and put them in the appropriate .repo files (in > /etc/yum.repos.d/), and JPackage (lots of java packages, also kept > compatible with extras) also if you like. Leave the stock yum.conf though. > -Dan Thanks, Dan. I took a few files out of /etc/yum.repos.d and added fedora-extras.repo After that, yum update seemed to behave. It ended with a note which I don't understand. I had been trying to use apt a few weeks ago until I was told that apt was no longer supported for core 3. Can I ignore the note below or how do I comply with it? bruce Running Transaction NOTE: Default configuration changed! If you have made any changes to the configuration locally Merge your local customizations from /etc/apt/apt.conf.rpmsave to /etc/apt/apt.conf
