On 4/8/06, Nikhil Fernandes <njfernandes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I made the jump to FC5 two days ago, and it's great, but the > installation was painful. > > To begin with, the FC5 install wouldn't go through at all(Possibly a > problem with the DVD), so I had to wipe my disk, install a minimal > install of FC4 and then upgrade. That worked fine. > > Now I tried to add various software groups, and Pirut went nuts on me. I > spent a long time selecting the packages, and then after grinding away, > it spat out a bunch of dependency errors at me. I was connected to the > internet, and I had installed nothing outside of the core and extras > repos, so it didn't make sense. I tried to install some of the packages > that had unresolved dependencies (most of them seemed to do with mono - > f-spot was one of them) through yum, and that worked fine. > > I then went back to Pirut, and selected a smaller group of packages, and > the install went smoothly. Started Pirut again to add some more > software, and that also went fine - until i realised that Pirut had > removed a bunch of software (openoffice. evolution) that it didn't tell > me it was going to remove. I did this cycle a few more times, and found > stuff like gnome and kde being removed at random. I eventually gave up > and did the entire install through yum. > > Has anyone seen this issue? I couldn't find anything in bugzilla. > > Nikhil Fernandes > As the heading "Add/Remove Software" suggests pirut does remove software. File a bug if you feel the UI is misleading or could use improvement.
