On 09/28/2016 07:11 PM, Doug wrote:
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. . . .
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 that's what's actually going on.
Fedora versions go end of life about every year (well, two releases later). F18 went end of life when F20 was released about three years ago. I really doubt there updates available on any current mirrors. You might be able to get updates from one of the archival mirror sites but it's so out of date, you'll be hard pressed to find any.
Lots of luck with that one. Remember that CentOS is longer-lived than Fedora, so if you think you're going to need something that'll live longer than two years, go CentOS. After all, Fedora eventually becomes 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
They have already switch to KDE5 :) AND they are switching to systemd :( That's why I found no good reason to switch to it. Also, not as many packages available for it from other repos.