On Sunday 05 November 2006 15:40, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 17:33 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > My experience with FC6 is getting worse and worse. I had the machine > > coming up in Gnome. The system offer end me some updates some of which I > > chose. > > > > Now the machine comes up In KDE. Neither the Sessions option not the > > Deskswitcher Tool will allow me to choose GNOME as my desktop. What do > > I do now? > > Now I don't want to make this too much of a mystery, What happened was > piyut or one of the update functions removed gnome-session. But to get > it back is a big problem. > First, as I illustrated in a previous message "FC6 update mystery, yum > in FC6 simply does not work. Despite I have all the reposa installed you > is unable to do a complete update because it can't find the dependencies > needed. How can that be since these dependencies must be in one of the > repos. Someone explain this or admit that yum is broken! > > Now let us get back to bringing back GNOME. I ran switchdesk GNOME and > it told me that GNOME was not installed and I need to run a > GROUPINSTALL. I tried. That did not initially work because the > intallation wanted an earlier version of beagle than the currently > installed version. So I excluded beagle and beagle-gui and the > installation succeed. > > BUT FORM MY POINT OF VIEW FC6 IS CURRENTLY UNUSABLE BECAUSE YUM IS > CURRENTLY UNUSABLE. I will be glad to have someone give me a > explanation for my problem. I can't help with the problem, but how did you do the "Groupinstall" if Yum isn't working, or is it just the updates that Yum is not working for. I use Apt and Synaptic as an update manager, which are in FC5's extras, and I presume are in FC6's as well. Even if you normally use Yum it's usefull to have an alternative if Yum should break, and Apt handles some problems with deps differently to Yum. If Apt sees a dep problem that's causing the update to fail it will suggest removing the offending package that's causing the problems, and you can always try and put it back later. But at least you'll be able to get the updates. > > On top of that piyut is dangerous to the extent I find it unusable. Agreed, and perhaps the fact that it's tied in with Yum explains some of that. Personally I don't understand what the developers were thinking, when they removed up2date, and the old "add and remove packages" tool from FC5, knowing that post install with pirut it would be impossible to add packages from the cdroms without losing 3GB of harddrive space by creating a local repo for the cdroms. Pirut is supposed to be being fixed, so that you can add packages from the cdroms post-install, but I presume that hasn't happened yet on FC6, which is going to be another 8 days of dialup downloading for me to get it. > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sorry I can't help with the Yum problem. Nigel.
