My impression of FC.

[xequence]

(Updated as I go along)

Well, I used to use ubuntu but I had always wanted to try FC. I did. I love the look of it, the bluecurve icons ROCK.

ONe thing I didnt like was that my default user couldent sudo. I downloaded the opera RPM...

[root@CPE00e02988a723-CM000f9f78b110 etc]# rpm -Uvh /home/patrick/Desktop/opera-8.50-20050916.5-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by opera-8.50-20050916.5.i386
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by opera-8.50-20050916.5.i386

Wow. I didnt expect it to be unable to auto download dependincies! I knew dependency hell used to be a problem on RPM distros, but I thought someone told me it was gone by now. So, I try:

[[root@CPE00e02988a723-CM000f9f78b110 etc]# yum install libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2)


and get

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('


Yum is horribly slow and when I "yum install apt", It downloads and installs it, but apt doesent seem to work.

Also, when I log in, it tells me gnome cant find CPE00e02988a723-CM000f9f78b110 on the internet and it wont work. I click to skip it. That is just crazy.

Does anyone know how to fix any of my problems? I was expecting FC to be good. The default wallpaper is good, the GDM is good, the installer is good (even though it cant even resize NTFS! I had to boot up the ubuntu installer to do that), and best of all, the icons are great.

So, I am going to save the FC icons somewhere so if I reinstall ubuntu, it will have bluecurve icons which are good ;)

Oh, and also, it couldent detect my sound.

[bytesniper]

really easy solution from the directory you have the opera rpm in:

yum localinstall opera-8.50-20050916.5-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm

and it wil resolve those dependancies for you. just for furture reference though the package you needed to resolve that dependancy is compat-libstdc++ and would have installed it by:

yum install compat-libstdc++*

HTH,
Joseph

[dimii]

You could install yumex and look via GUI to those missing dependencies.
But I don't think you need the whole name, try: #yum install libstdc++.so.5*
if such error occurs

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Thank you very much :) I was worried for a second trying FC might be a disaster. It still might be, but there is less of a chance of it ;)

Installed: opera.i386 2:8.50-20050916.5
Dependency Installed: compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-47.fc4
Complete!

[bytesniper]

never a disaster... everyone should be using Fedora :D

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Oh, and I like the "right click on an RPM, have it installed" thing. I wanted that in ubuntu (Though not for RPMs obviously, for DEBs ;))

[Finalzone]

Concerning sudo. As root, run visudo, read the text, add your usename in sudo group, save and exit.

The reason about the feeling of slowness for yum is due to the fact it does not use cache and it does task simulaneously. Read more about yum by typing "man yum" on the terminal.


Yum is horribly slow and when I "yum install apt", It downloads and installs it, but apt doesent seem to work.

Apt4rpm has been deprecated since the maintainers focused their owrk on smartpm. More you explore about yum, more you won't feel the need to use apt.

[xequence]

Concerning sudo. As root, run visudo, read the text, add your usename in sudo group, save and exit.

The reason about the feeling of slowness for yum is due to the fact it does not use cache and it does task simulaneously. Read more about yum by typing "man yum" on the terminal.



Apt4rpm has been deprecated since the maintainers focused their owrk on smartpm. More you explore about yum, more you won't feel the need to use apt.

For visudo, how do I accually change it? When I type letters, it moves the text cursor thingy.

And also, I think the repo servers are slow. (Not the accual program, YUM, but the servers) I am getting 8 KBPS at best from them.

I got my FAT partition that I share between windows and linux working, using the ubuntuguide :P

[LinuxManMikeC]

I got my FAT partition that I share between windows and linux working, using the ubuntuguide :P

It's all Linux :p

[Finalzone]

For visudo, how do I accually change it? When I type letters, it moves the text cursor thingy.
visudo is based on vi editor. Press "i" to edit, press "esc" and ":wq" to save and exit. I admit this might scre newcomers.
Easy way is to edit /etc/sudoers using your favorite editor.

[brahms]

Easy way is to edit /etc/sudoers using your favorite editor.
Although be careful. The advantage of using visudo is that it checks the syntax of the file before saving it. Basic vi commands are not hard to learn and might be extremely useful to know in future emergencies!