On 09/28/2016 08:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 09/28/2016 05:43 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
I've got a box with F18 on it. It has not been connected to the internet
for two years but I need to use it now for a while, after which I'll
install a newer version. The first thing I did after connecting it was
to run updates. I got about a hundred or so messages which seem to boil
down to missing repos, or perhaps moved or renamed. here's a sample:
Trying other mirror.
webkitgtk-1.10.2-3.fc18.x86_64 FAILED
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/18/x86_64/webkitgtk-1.10.2-3.fc18.x86_64.rpm:
[Errno 14] curl#9 - "Server denied you to change to the given directory"
And so on. . . .
So I'd like to do all available updates, then work for a while then
update. Does anyone see how I can fix the missing repos issue? if that's
what's actually going on.
Fedora versions go end of life about every year (well, two releases
later). F18 went end of life when F20 was released about three years
ago. I really doubt there updates available on any current mirrors. You
might be able to get updates from one of the archival mirror sites but
it's so out of date, you'll be hard pressed to find any.
Lots of luck with that one. Remember that CentOS is longer-lived than
Fedora, so if you think you're going to need something that'll live
longer than two years, go CentOS. After all, Fedora eventually becomes
CentOS. That's what we are--the experimental lab rats for Red Hat.
You might give a look at PCLinuxOS--it's a continuous upgrade or what
they call a rolling release.
It's not good _forever_ since one of these days they will switch to
KDE5. OTOH, maybe the other
desktops they support won't change. I'm not happy about the possibility
of starting all over with
KDE5, but Linux is always churning, no matter what distro you use.
--doug
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