Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 01:31 PM, Sergio wrote: yumex is working just fine here. Don't mess with its desktop files, your issue is something else. BTW, that looks like yumex-local.desktop which is made to install local rpm's. yumex.desktop is attached in case you lost it (?) I don't have a desktop file f

Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Sergio
--- Em seg, 19/11/12, Joe Zeff escreveu: > De: Joe Zeff > Assunto: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install > Para: "Community support for Fedora users" > Data: Segunda-feira, 19 de Novembro de 2012, 19:02 > A correction to my last post: when I > went to edit the

[Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
A correction to my last post: when I went to edit the menu to add --update-only to the yumex command line, I saw this: /usr/bin/yumex -X install %F This means that, as installed, yumex is expecting to be given a program to install on the command line. No wonder it doesn't work! Removing tha

Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Sergio
> Just to close things off, I've logged onto the laptop, > removed myself from wheel and things are working the way I > want.  However, if I run it from the menu and there are > no updates, it simply tells me there's nothing to do and > exits. I never saw it behave this way (close itself). Maybe

Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2012 03:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/19/2012 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSEL

[Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSELF. Just to close things off, I've logge

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSELF. I kind of like this move. OK, that's

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 11:26 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, proving that it was a software issue not a kernel

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2012 02:26 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, proving that it was a software issue not a kernel

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean > install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, > proving that it was a software issue not a kernel issue. The bad news is > that after install

Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, proving that it was a software issue not a kernel issue. The bad news is that after installing yumex I can't get it to run. It asks me to authen