iPod Nano

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:42:05AM -0400, Craig Routledge wrote:
> You most likely installed Flash for your web-browser.  Macromedia Flash was 
> purchased by Adobe, and Adobe provides a yum repository.
> 
> You can check by following the URL in the adobe-linux-i386.repo config file 
> with your web-browser and seeing what's there.
> 
> 
> As for your general yum woes, if you think you've done really weird things 
> to your config files and don't remember what they are, just re-install it.  
> Download the latest rpm for yum.  Then:
> 
>   rpm -e yum
>   rpm -i [yum-package-name]
> 
> If compatible, the old configuration files will still be there and the new 
> ones will instead have an .rpmnew extension.  Otherwise the old ones will 
> be renamed to end with .rpmsave and will not be active.  In the first case, 
> rename the old files and strip the .rpmnew extension from the new files and 
> you should be good to go.  In the second case, you're already set.
> 
> Make sure you check all your config files.
>   /etc/yum.conf
> 
> and those in
> 
>   /etc/yum/
>   /etc/yum.repos.d/
> 
> 
> ... and don't feel bad about messing up your system.  When I was playing 
> around with Linux for the first time, I didn't have much disk space and was 
> looking for stuff to remove.  This was the SLS distribution in 1992 at
> kernel version 0.99.something.  I was merely playing with UNIX at home 
> because it seemed cool in those days just to *have* such a thing.  Read the 
> documentation?  Don't be silly.  I was having far too much fun doing 
> juvenile things like logging in several times and looking at the "w" and 
> "who" output.  For some bizarre reason I thought proc was only involved in 
> the installation process.  So I did an "rm -Rf /proc"
> 
> Strangely enough, the system didn't like that and I had to do a complete 
> re-install.

Oh lovely.  I bet there are symlinks in /proc/somepid to somewhere else
on the system important which would have caused no end of havok. :)

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Len Sorensen
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