up2date woes with FC4

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 02:07 -0500, mjinks at uchicago.edu wrote:
> I've been away from RedHat-based distros for a while, but I need to test
> a commercial app which requires FC3 or FC4, so today I set up an FC4
> machine using .iso's freshly downloaded from a mirror.
> 
> I did a base "server" install and all seemed to go well, but somehow I
> managed to leave out X11 support, which our app needs, so I'm trying to
> install it using up2date.
> 
> Well, just about anything I try to do with up2date fails, and each time
> I try I tend to get different errors.  A few samples:

Forget up2date. It's broken in FC4 and gone from FC5 altogether,

Use yum instead.

# yum groupinstall "X Window System"

Paul.