kongit Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 I just installed fedora core 1 on my computer and I plan to use it as my windows replacement and normal os. I also have a gentoo stage 1, but that is beside the point. I really like it and it is very functional, however I have ran into a major bug that is bugging me. I am having major problems with rpms. If one fails to install I have to restart my computer in order to install more. This is annoying as it is very difficult to tell which ones will work or not. I was wondering if anybody had a solution to this. I have searched for one but the few I found didn't work. Any help would be appreciated. I finally ditched slackware :cry: I had the choice between ditching slackware or gentoo, but I decided to keep gentoo because my slack install was started to get messy. I like gentoo and it runs much faster than slack due to a stage 1 install with very high optimization. However I cannot use my printer with gentoo...and I couldn't with slack either. So gentoo will sit on the back burner, and be used as a learning tool for c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichotin Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 you can install most apps with yum anyway. try that. yum install application first time it will take some time because its syncing some stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar559 Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 is the audigy 2 compatible with fedora? what about sata drives? im seriously considering switching to linux again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 is the audigy 2 compatible with fedora? what about sata drives? im seriously considering switching to linux again Start a new thread please. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 18, 2004 Author Share Posted March 18, 2004 if rpm craps up, yum won't work ( at least I think this is why yum wouldn't work). I just need a few more rpms installed. I might keep it updated with up2date after those rpms, but I have heard of problems with it... they are fixable though. Fedora is going to be my stable distro that I can rely on ... I am learning c on gentoo right now and am planning on hacking the hell out of it. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 in case you didn't notice urpmi is an old version which WILL NOT work properly with Fedora Core 1. This is one of the main things that critics have smacked the developers and the distro for. I suggest downloading and installing the latest version as it should work a ton better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 18, 2004 Author Share Posted March 18, 2004 I didn't know urpmi was part of fedora.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 maybe it wasn't urpmi....can't remember...but I just remember lots of criticism about an old version of the rpm installer or management Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 18, 2004 Author Share Posted March 18, 2004 I think I got it worked out. I updated a few things and it all works good now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/ check this bish out ;-) ive used it for fc and it works just like debian ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 18, 2004 Author Share Posted March 18, 2004 I was going to see if synaptic could, but I will look at that further, thanks :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/check this bish out ;-) ive used it for fc and it works just like debian ;-) yum is the same idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 19, 2004 Author Share Posted March 19, 2004 yum is the same idea. You can upgrade fedora core 1 to fedora core 2 with yum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 It's possible, both apt and yum have similar feature sets so they can do a lot of the same things. There are just differences in how each one finds out what's available on the server. yum downloads a small 5KB-20KB or so file for each rpm on the server, apt puts them all in a gz that you download - each method has it's benefits. In the end the program doesn't matter as much as the number of servers offering repositories for one or the other though. apt is more common at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 19, 2004 Author Share Posted March 19, 2004 I know it is possible but has somebody actually taken the steps to figure out how? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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