Thanks for the suggestion, however, when I tried to uninstall some packages
in order to upgrade them (cups, rpmdrake, rpm, rpmtools), a box appeared
saying that all these other packages would be removed to satisfy
dependencies. I clicked on "ok," and software manager closed without
uninstalling anything. Software Manager used to work just fine with no
problems the very first time I installed 8.0 on this machine, and has ceased
to do so since, even when using fdisk to wipe out the linux partiton and
reinstall from scratch.
Terry
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 19:48, you wrote:
>
> There aren't that many packages out there for update.
>
> You need to do te following
>
> Identify the installable packages, using ONLY the update source
>
> Remove the similar packages from your current system (one session)
>
> Now cllick on the new packages and they will be moved in. There was an
> intermittent segfault while removing and installing packages at the same
> time which the "already installed" covers. Software Manager uses rpm -ivh
> or urpmi which will not install over an older version.
>
> As long as removal and installation are separate steps you will have no
> problem.
>
> Civileme
