On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Derick Centeno wrote: > Hi Joshua: > > I'm sympathetic that he may have some things rather unique to his > setup; but rpm will not pull in all the other associated dependent > programs necessary to make compilation successful within the 4.1 > environment, or any environment for that matter. > He needs yum. And since he crippled yum there is no other easy > resolution other than a full reinstall or reinstalling just those > packages he actually uses.
Yeah, my yum totally crippled by me. > > He may not need say the games within KDE, so he can leave that out. > You obviously get the picture... > > Anaconda can help him reinstall just the stuff he wants and next time > he'll be more careful when removing things from his system. > Where is the Anaconda located? > While we are discussing this it's a good idea to remember to use rpm > to remove specific packages, not yum. Yum is great for installing > stuff and finding all the things (dependencies and subdependencies) a > certain package needs. However, what makes yum great as an installer > makes it a devil to pay when it's used to remove programs. Yum not > only removes the package you wish removed, but will remove the > dependencies that package uses and related dependencies other related > programs need as well -- and it keeps going! And when you discover > you need a program, a daemon or whatever you find it crippled, gone > or worse. > > That's apparently what happened. This has happened to me at least > twice, but once I understood how yum behaves I just don't run yum to > remove anything. I should have known this before I type yum remove :( > Of course, we are not in Vincent's predicament. However, a working > version of YDL 4.1 is always better than whatever crippled version he > has now missing whatever unknowns -- working and living that way is > worse than living with sink holes. At least, starting from scratch > with a pristine install of YDL 4.1 he'll have a solid working no- > nonsense system. > > It's a pain to go that route to be sure, but I don't think he really > has all that much of a choice given what's he described. > :( Vincent _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
