On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 03:29 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 07:40 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > > Ric Moore wrote: > > > OK, figuring something had to be missing I rpm -e k3b as there was no > > > k3b-devl installed and yum kept bitchin about it.. > > > > rpm -e k3b-devel > > > > then try again will probably help -- you only need it if you are > > compiling something to work with k3b. > > Well, trouble-shooting with a shotgun again, trying to find that > K3bSetup program, which I had hoped resided in k3b-devel. So, I did > that. erased the K3b package completely, begged, pleaded, and kiss yum's > butt to install kK3b* to give me everything it had... show me what > you're workin' with time. > > K3b-devel is there, it just doesn't like something about the K3b package > and refuses to install, so yum pouts about it and shuts down having done > nothing at all. I did a google and others are also looking for the > package that the K3b error message says will fix everything. This was > one of my rants with FC5. On install, everything is /dev/sda for my DvD > and /dev/sdb for a 200 gig HD. NOW it's magically /dev/hda and /dev/hdb > although /dev/hda1 is supposed to be the boot partition. <bangs head on > keyboard> Xine does the same thing. Burps an error message, Can't find > Medium or something to that effect, but when I click on "DvD" it plays > the movie. > > As David Byrne of the Talking Heads would wail, "How did I get here?" > <chorus: "...water flowing under ground." "Into the pool again!" Which I > believe is a reference to re-incarnation and finding yourself right on > your back again in the dung heap. <--- I cleaned that up for Polite > Society. > > So, can relate to that, same ole same ole. Shoot me and I'll just be > back again, still bitching about /dev/sda like I had good sense, and > marrying the last three all over again. <sigh> I need some BBQ brisket. > Comfort food. Ric ---- how was the bbq brisket? what repositories do you have configured? I don't see a k3b-devel package in core/extras/livna # yum search k3b-devel Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files No Matches found but I am using FC-6 and I might be wrong in assuming that you are too. Craig
