Re: Resolution and (default) packages?

Hi Al, Al Neumann wrote: > [...] > Just not really sure what SL has been doing... i.e: Where are those real > > scientific apps!!? > Somewhat dismayed at the use of "scientific" in current SL. > Al I know that's confusing. And it's the most frequently ask question about SL -> https://www.scienti

minicom problem

Hi, I am using SL 5.4 (2.6.18-164.6.1.el5, x86_64, no i386 at all) and have a problem with using minicom as a standard user. I would appreciate any hel p! I have a user named "usv" which is in two groups - usv and uucp. I instal led minicom and when I first tried running it, minicom asked me to

Re: yum update fails dependency check

Thanks Stephan. That did the update ran fine. Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Nov 7, 2009, at 18:09, Al Russell wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately still no luck. I was a little brief in my first post so a little more info. I am using SL 5.3 and have kept it updated. Until now I have

Re: yum update fails dependency check

On Nov 7, 2009, at 18:09, Al Russell wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately still no luck. I was a little brief in my first post so a little more info. I am using SL 5.3 and have kept it updated. Until now I have not had any problems applying distributed updates/patches. "yum cl

Re: yum update fails dependency check

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately still no luck. I was a little brief in my first post so a little more info. I am using SL 5.3 and have kept it updated. Until now I have not had any problems applying distributed updates/patches. "yum clean all" followed by several other tests gave no

Re: Resolution and (default) packages?

Okay, now that I have the system configured properly and have finished 'taking inventory'... of the newest SL, back to my initial inquiry, part B: B. 'Scientific' software packages: I thought SL default-installed a whole hoard of scientific/education packages, as those I seem to recall from v 4.3

SL 5.4 freeze on 1st boot when "setting hostname"

SL 5.4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.2.1.e15 x86_64 Samsung Q45 Hello! I've managed to install SL 5.4 from DVDs but cannot boot into the system. The boot sequence freezes when reaching or shortly after "setting hostname [OK]". I've tried booting with nousb set and rhgb disabled, to no avail. Any ideas? Than

Re: yum update fails dependency check

У Сбт, 2009-11-07 у 00:12 -0600, Al Russell пише: > I just tried to apply latest kernel update and it fail on Missing > Dependency: ndiswrapper - yum listing follows. Any suggestions? > > ~ $ su -c "yum update" > Password: > Loaded plugins: kernel-module > Excluding Packages in global exclude lis