On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Marko Vojinovic <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009 23:05, Conor Mac Aoidh wrote: > > I have been having problems with my Fedora 10 installation recently. I > > don't know what it is but a hell of a lot of things are breaking. First I > > installed an upgrade that broke Yum, which I have fixed. Then I installed > > another update that seems to have broken a number of things.... > > What exactly did you do? If you use yum to install stuff, it should not > break. > If you manually installed something (why?), that is probably the reason > that > things got broken. I try my best to only install stuff with yum. It's not possible all of the time though... What is the point of having a package manager if it does not manage your packages!? > Also I recently installed the kooldock which operates similar to a Mac OSX > > dock. It was working but now when I click on one of the doc items I get > the > > following error: > > Kooldock is a very lame substitute for the real "Mac OSX dock" (tried both > myself). Incidentally, that real "Mac OSX dock" is called cairo-dock, and > is > available for Fedora: > > yum install cairo-dock I actually used cairo-dock before and got rid of it. I think that kooldock is much better. I couldn't get cairo to do transparent backgrounds and kooldock is much more customisable. Maybe you need to have rpmfusion repo enabled, I am not sure... :-) How do I check? Is that a dis-advantage? > I would appreciate if anyone could figure out what the hell is going on > > because it's really starting to annoy me! I have tried forums but no one > > seems to know the answer! > > You have probably broken your own system yourself. Basic rules: never > install > a rpm binary by hand unless you are sure it is packaged for F10 and you are > sure you know exactly what you are doing. And if it is packaged for F10, > use > yum instead of manually installing. If you compiled something from source, > be > sure to install it in /usr/local so that it doesn't conflict with existing > packages (of course, you can't be 100% sure even then). I don't do that anyway... If you tell us how did you manage to "install an upgrade that broke Yum", > maybe someone can help to clean things up. Otherwise, you get to keep the > pieces... I really don't think that I have done anything to cause these things breaking... But then again I'm no Linux genius! For example I discovered that the sound problem that I have been having recently was caused by a kernal update. There's more info on that here: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2009-01/msg01187.html As for the Yum problem, I don't know exactly what happened. Yum was working fine then I installed an update and from then on I could not use Yum, not even to install updates. I fixed it by running this: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb Thanks -- Conor "If you make a general statement, a programmer says, 'Yes, but...' while a designer says, 'Yes, and...'" http://macaoidh.name
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