On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 07:11 -0700, Robert Wuest wrote: > I don't think 'yum update' will reinstall a removed package. How would > it know to update something that is not there? You'd need to use rpm to > reinstall (or the software installer GUI). yum install installs packages that have been removed. > > I rebooted (I hate rebooting a Linux box, it's such an admission of > defeat :) nautilus seems to be working for me, but the CD burner is > still failing. Started a KDE session and k3b did burn a CD, only it was > garbage because a bunch of files were just missing! No errors, just > missing files. > > I made a new user and logged into a gnome session as that user and the > nautilus CD burner just hangs. > > I don't exactly know why I am hung up on the CD burner, except it > failing was the first symptom I saw after the Feb 18 updates. It was > working fine before that. > > Robert > > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 13:47 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Henning Larsen wrote: > > > > > I would create a new user and log in as the new user, and see if the > > > problems disappears. > > > > > > If they do, then the problems is easier to locate. > > > If not, you could try to remove some of the programs with problems, and > > > reinstall them. > > > > What is the official way of re-installing a program in Fedora? > > In general "yum remove foo" will remove a large number of packages. > > Can one just remove the program with rpm and run "yum update"? > > > > -- > > Timothy Murphy > > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > -- ======================================================================= "Hi, I'm Professor Alan Ginsburg... But you can call me... Captain Toke." -- John Lovitz, as ex-Supreme Court nominee Alan Ginsburg, on SNL ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
