[wplug] Core 6 Package Manager

[Weber, Lawrence A]

Answers to questions below:

Installing from the net is not an option.  It is on the company's
network and network installations take a day or more.

This PC is used to support some legacy products developed with embedded
Linux, so it is not real important.  The CompacFlash reader/writer is
needed for the embedded products op sys and application.  Somewhere
around Core 3 or 4, standard support for the USB (SDA) stopped.  I
worked fine with RH 8.

I checked in /etc/yum.repos.d and found 7 files all with references to
the net.  I am not sure why since the previous installation of FC6 on
this same machine would allow me to add programs from the CD. (Different
CD's this time).  Can these files be cleared out?

4.something = RedHat 4.x, maybe 8 or more years ago?


-laweber

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+laweber=switch.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+laweber=switch.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Bryan
J. Smith
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 3:52 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] Core 6 Package Manager

"Weber, Lawrence A" <laweber at switch.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the Core 7 offer but this PC does not have a DVD drive.

Doesn't need one.  You can pass or even access the .iso over the
network.  In fact, the last time I installed any Red Hat or Fedora
distro from CD/DVD media was Red Hat Linux 6.2.  CD-R/DVD-R/DVD+R error
rates are just too high (and CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW is even far worse, 1 in
10^9 or 5 bytes average per DVD-RW/DVD+RW in fact).

> I am using the GNOME GUI but cannot set the options because it closes 
> when the error message is cleared.

You mean you launch it and immediately get the error, then it closes?
 Sounds like a design oversight.

> I find this situation odd since I had previously used Core 6 and the 
> package manager worked fine.

If you need to pass an username/password to access the Internet proxy
server, then you need to add that to your program (or GNOME's Internet
settings).  At least that is what I inferred from your previous e-mail,
that you had to enter an username/password to access the Internet, so
you need to set your Proxy settings to the same.

> I could never get the USB ports configured to use a compact flash 
> reader so I started trying out other Linux distributions.

Which should make absolutely _no_ difference.  99% of distros are
_exactly_ the same.  Only the installer programs are typically
different, but that's hardly driver or other support.  Typically a
Google search gets you want you want, which is not the same for Windows
drivers when you can't find them.  ;)

[ SIDE NOTE/INFLAMMATORY:  One thing I still don't understand is why
people re-install Linux distributions, but don't re-install Windows? 
I mean, getting drivers necessary for Windows is not exactly "fun." 
I.e., ever install Windows on a blank PC, especially when the PC is
newer than the Windows version? ]

> After trying out 6 others, each with their own problems, I went back 
> to RedHat which I have used since 4.something.

Since Red Hat Linux 4.x?
Or since Fedora Core 4?
Or since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?


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