F10 Things Breaking

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sun Mar 22 03:14:46 UTC 2009


Marko Vojinovic wrote, at 03/22/2009 09:14 AM +9:00:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009 23:05, Conor Mac Aoidh wrote:
>> I have been having problems with my Fedora 10 installation recently. I
>> don't know what it is but a hell of a lot of things are breaking. First I
>> installed an upgrade that broke Yum, which I have fixed. Then I installed
>> another update that seems to have broken a number of things....
> 
> What exactly did you do? If you use yum to install stuff, it should not break. 
> If you manually installed something (why?), that is probably the reason that 
> things got broken.
> 
>> Also I recently installed the kooldock which operates similar to a Mac OSX
>> dock. It was working but now when I click on one of the doc items I get the
>> following error:
> 
> Kooldock is a very lame substitute for the real "Mac OSX dock" (tried both 
> myself). Incidentally, that real "Mac OSX dock" is called cairo-dock, and is 
> available for Fedora:
> 
> yum install cairo-dock

Just a note:

Red Hat Legal felt that these two packages (kooldock and cairo-dock) have
the possibility of infringing Apple's software patent and removed these
two packages from rawhide tree. That is, these two pacakges will no longer
be available on Fedora 11.

Regards,
Mamoru




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