Quoting Doug <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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. . . .
yes, I should have trimmed, apologies
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
snip!
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
well the thing is I've used RH since about 4.1 so I know it and
basically even with all the churn every release is faster and better
in significant ways. But I use Mint on a laptop and boy was the
changeover from 17 to 18 ever easy, just point and click and lotsa
useful new stuff.
D
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