yum update doesn't!

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:39:09 -0800, Dave
<fedora-user at nospam.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:01 am, Kam Leo wrote:
> 
> >
> > It's a bug in yum.  I've had this happen many times to me.  Yum goes
> > off to check dependencies and then exits.  Just run 'yum update' again
> > and everything will install.
> 
>  After three tries, it still hadn't ... but I'll try it again, then try "yum
> update yum" and go again. I'm assuming it's better to be in runlevel 3 so
> X/KDE/etc aren't running?
> 

Depending on its setting SELinux may have an impact.; X/KDE/Gnome
should have no impact on yum. I prefer using yum over up2date because
I don't want to be bothered with clicking through the up2date dialogs.
 I open a terminal in KDE or Gnome and let yum take care of the
updates.

If you continue having difficulties upgrading yum with yum don't beat
yourself over the head, install what you got in the cache using "rpm
-ivh *.rpm".  The important part is to get your system in working
order.  You can attend to yum at a later time.  Try apt-get or smart,
http://smartpm.org , as alternatives.