On 01/09/2013 05:38 PM, FMcCormick wrote: > > Hi > I am relatively new to Fedora and to YUM...so I guess that's why I am having > these problems welcome to a whole new world. > I noticed recently that 18 wasn't updating very often..there was little being > updated so I went through the repository list in /etc/yum.repos.d and enabled > some rawhide repositories that were disabled. rawhide is cause of your problems. > Now when I yum check-update and yum update...I get a bunch of dependency errors > because yum is trying to pull in fedora 19 files ?? > I sort it out by running yum --skip-broken update....but I'd like to fix what > I messed up . very easy. remove rawhide repos. reasons being; long and exact -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide short and simple -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhide_%28computing%29 it would be nice if you were backed up to before you enabled rawhide. then you could restore and continue along with out rawhide. because you are new to linux and fedora, i would suggest a complete wipe of hdd and fresh new install of f18. i know you do do not want to hear such, but it will ensure that you have a *clean* system to work with. besides, it will give you practice of installing fedora. i am sure that with oos, you had plenty of practice of installing an os. another thing to consider, and that is learning to make backup. by doing a fresh install, you can configure and customize it, back it up and you will have a *customized backup* handy if you need it again. also, as you add to your custom system, you can make periodic back ups of newly installed software and configs so that you can restore to what ever state you desire. much luck. hth. -- peace out. tc.hago, g .
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