fixing amarok ???

[Paul Howarth]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Kim Lux <lux <at> diesel-research.com> writes:
>> I didn't see the option to do so.  I must have missed that.  I didn't
>> select any packages or anything.  It used all 5 CDs.
> 
> But you didn't enable Extras during install, did you?
> 
>> It mustn't be a patent issue because I just noticed that it un-installed
>> gtkterm as well and there are no patent issues with that that I'm aware
>> of.  And gtkterm is in extras.  I'm not exactly sure what happened, but
>> lots of my apps got un installed.
> 
> It's apparently a new "feature" in Anaconda which removes all apps with broken 
> dependencies (if not all apps which aren't in the 5 CDs) during an install, 
> rather than giving you the opportunity to fix them up post-install as it used 
> to do.

Having upgraded two boxes to FC6, I haven't noticed this new "feature" 
at all, and running "package-cleanup --problems" did reveal some broken 
deps in the upgraded systems. So I think that whatever happened to the 
OP's system must have been something else.

Paul.