I also HIGHLY recommend reading this thread....
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...&m=51300801855

all about RED-CARPET.

RC is my favorite linux app ever!

hi, when I using "yum update", when it is resolving dependencies, error accurs:

Resolving dependencies
.Package ethereal needs libpcap.so.0.8.1, this is not available.

I can not find "libpcap.so.0.8.1" in google or anywhere I find, do you know where to download it?

Thank you!

This thread just saved me about 20 hours of trying to figure out how to do everything. I already had spent a lot of hours tryn to get mp3's to play. 1 question would apt-get install kde* update my kde also?

it would if you point to some of the alternate repositories.
It STILL isn't on the official fedora mirrors.
the easiest way I have found to get kde 3.21 was to ftp the files from kde .org then run the RPM command with the -nodeps option.

I have to say, Frank, that this Fedora distro with you improved apt-get is really a grand thing!

So far I have not changed anything besides the sources for apt-get. Also, I have found that the kde samba tool is an absolute must for people trying to setup MS shares. I have some slight worries about security, if people do not review their samba.conf after using the kde tool, but it helps.

Thanks again, Frank.

Oh yeah, I also installed Synaptic, form the guide at:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat...must_have.html

It looks good, and helps out some.

How do I use apt-get? Bash doesn't recognize the command, and I thought it was only for debian. Is there a way to use it in Fedora?

I got a question. I formatted today and installed fedora. Earlier i was using redhat 9 and when I used apt-get for kde 3.2.1 it completely re-did all my menus, and it wouldn't show anything such as system settings > users and groups, system settings > security level, etc.... Is this normal when upgrading to kde 3.2..1 to completely overwrite all your menus?

I'm afraid if I use apt-get to update kde 3.2.1 again that it's going to do the same thing and completely destroy all my menus that I have right now.

Instead of using apt-get install kde blah blah blah, wouldn't it be better to do apt-get upgrade kde blah blah blah? Or even apt-get dist-upgrade shows that it will upgrade kde, though it also wants to uninstall gnome. Please help, I dunno how to properly update kde 3.2.1 without it completely messing up my menus. Do I want to wait till redhat /fedora project team officially release their own updates for 3.2.1 and then go download that from red carpet or something?

I used yum to upgrade KDE on Fedora Core 1. Worked great

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

yes, but it overwrites all the fedora menus. Like you wont be able to system settings > users and groups, system settings > security level, etc.... because that doesn't exist in kde 3.2..1 only in the modified versions made in fedora core 1. I heard that fedora users wont be able to upgrade until fc2 if we wanna keep all the fedora menu options available.

By "Fedora menus" do you mean the menus in Gnome? KDE has it's own set of menus and if you run KDE you will get the KDE menus of course. What I did when I wanted to use the Gnome menus was to switchdesk back to the Gnome desktop. Otherwise I used the KDE menus. As far as I know (which may not mean much ) you can't have it both ways--that is the Gnome menus with KDE. I'm sorry not to be more help but maybe someone with more experience can help you more. Good luck.

what i mean is, when you install fedora, fedora has the kde menus customized, so lets say if you goto system settings you will see an entry in there called users and groups, for instance. However, if you upgrade to kde 3.2.1 by downloading it manually using lets say apt or yum, it'll over-write all the kde menus that redhat has customized. After you're upgraded to kde 3.2.1, you wont see that system settings > users and groups anymore. You'll see system settings in kmenu, but not anything that the fedora project team customized in there. For us fedora users that wish to keep those menus that the fedora project team added manuall in kde, we will have to wait till they release the kde 3.2.1 package through their fedora up2date system. It has been said in fedora's irc channel, that we'll most likely have to wait till fc2 comes out till we fedora upgraded with their customized kde 3.2.1.

OK. I think I understand now. If you want to try FC2 you can get it here:

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=64

I used FC2 for a while but it couldn't see the sound card I had. Not surprising. That was on an eMachine old enough to have a 466 MHz Pentium. So since I wanted music I switched back to FC1 which can see the sound card. Go figure what happened between FC1 and FC2 so the sound card disappeared. I like to play with the different distros and have since moved on to the latest version of Mepis about which all I can say is WOW.

I'll wait till it becomes final in another month or two. Besides, I don't even think 3.2.1 is even integrated in there wtih the customizations. Kinda makes me feel like going to mandrake 10 since it already has 3.2.1 integrated.

You might want to try Mepis too in the meantime just for fun. It is available as a live CD so you can try it without installing it. I've used about eight different distros and like Mepis more than any of the others. Do I sound llike a Mepis salesman? I'm not--I just really like it.