Re: Yet More Yum Woe

[Beartooth <Beartooth swva net>]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:04:20 -0600, Ron Siven wrote:
	[....]
> I do not have either mono or sysinfo installed.  So, I can only assume
> that it's OK to remove them.  Of course some apps might not work (isn't
> mono an implementation of .NET for Linux?)
> 
> Did you try :
> 
> yum remove sysinfo*
> 
> and then :
> 
> yum update

	You got it, I think. The first command took only that one thing.

	Then yum update ran -- and, oddly, when I then told it "yum 
install sysinfo," it found no such package. I made that "sysinfo*" and it 
seems to be looking harder and further afield ...

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