On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:58:39 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the Debian world I would just open Synaptic, select Gnome and all > its components and mark them for Reinstall. > > In Fedora I have two GUIs: Add/Remove Software and Yumex, the latter > being a bit more featureful, although it throws up a little popup > every so often saying it can't get a lock - even if started right > after rebooting. I ignore the popup and it seems to work fine. The popup is caused by Fedora's automatic update feature. Yumex tries to run Yum, but the updater is using it, so it pops up the little notice. If you keep Yumex running long enough, you'll eventually see a popup from the updater, complaining that it can't run Yum. :-) Jealous software, what a concept. :-) > I am not very familiar with yum at the command line yet. Perhaps that > would be a better way to "reinstall." There is a "reinstall" option for the yum command line. I think that's only for single packages, though. For updating major blocks of packages, like Gnome, the "group*" commands are your friends. :-) --Dale -- Q. What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A. A nervous wreck. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
