[Coco] Fedora 7 updater error

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:49:21PM -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:
> Gene?  Does anyone know how to fix the Software Updater in Fedora 
> 7?  I did a batch update to the latest stuff the other day and now 
> the updater itself won't run, reporting "unable to start due to a 
> configuration error".

Ick...

> I guess I'm looking for the console command "yum" or something that 
> might do the trick, but I'm not good with that stuff.

Open a shell, use "su -" to become root and get root's environment,
then run "yum update".  Hopefully that will fix whatever got
broken.  If not, post the error message.  You may also want to hit
fedora-list at redhat.com with the issue.

> In a related topic, CCASM has been ported to Linux, as some of you 
> know.  I'm going to do one more update to the title and version and 
> then post it on coco3.com.

Cool!

John
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