Marc M wrote:
Well now it appears that the java installation has hosed additional things
on my box. For example when I try to yum I get the below errors.
1) Can anyone help me clean off *all* of the java so I can start over? I
have been through all of the instructions posted to me (thanks guys) but
somehow it just doesn't work regardless - I still get the same dependency
hell for java.
Let's worry about that after sorting yum out.
2) Does anyone know if there is a way to rebuild a hosed yum.conf or
somehow fix it completely? Seperate issue I know, but there seems to be
something wrong with it.
Clearly. Let's get rid of all the non-default repos. A stock FC5 install
has the following repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d :
fedora-core.repo
fedora-development.repo
fedora-extras-development.repo
fedora-extras.repo
fedora-legacy.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-updates-testing.repo
Try moving any other file in that directory somewhere else (e.g. your
home directory) and then try yum again.
> IOW would a
>
> # rm java*
>
> be a bad thing to do or would it break too many other things possibly?
Don't do that. Anything installed using rpm should be removed using rpm,
lest you want a hosed system.
Paul.
