On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:29 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > > > There are many applications that I was running in FC4 that I still have > > not found for FC6 in rpm form. > > Such as ... > > > It also took a very very long time to do, almost all day. A clean > > install was under an hour plus the updates. > > How exactly did you do the upgrade? > Did you run the installation CD, and choose "upgrade"? > I don't think this should have taken all day, > or indeed more time than a clean install and update. Oh no, me Irish Colleague. With a clean install there is no dependency Hell. It's spun to your harddrive as fast as the transfer can go from the CD device. With an upgrade, rpm is blowing it's lungs out deciding what and what not to do. That takes almost as much time as a clean install. (About one hour at most) Just a plain ole nightly yum update can take hours. and fails more than it works due to some obscure depend. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
