Fedora Core 1 Package Management Problems

I have just installed Fedora Core 1 on my laptop and I am extremely disappointed to have encountered two serious problems within two hours.

Firstly, the Add/Remove Applications package management tool does not work. When I first used it, I wanted to install the Samba packages, and I got an error like 'A problem was encountered during package installation. Exiting'. And this happened with all packages. Now, however, it's worse. When I start the package manager, I get the 'Checking System Status' dialog, which says 'Processing headers' and then the whole program freezes - i.e. stops responding.

Secondly, the up2date tool informs me that 131 updates are available. Then it informs me that I should first update up2date to the latest version (up2date-4.1.21-3). I downloaded this just now from the Fedora update mirror, and I browsed to the directory I saved it to and I double-clicked the RPM file. Nothing happened. So I try to use up2date with my current version of up2date, and things seem to be going OK until the progress bar reaches a certain package - 'MesaGLU' I think - at which it freezes. I know it has frozen because the dialogs 'clear' themselves, and pressing the Close Window button does not work immediately. I have tried adding this package to the Ignore list; but now it gets stuck on another package called 'pango'.

I've heard bad things about the RPM system but I never knew it was as bad as this.

My laptop has a Mobile Intel Celeron 2.0GHz processor, 256MB RAM, and is installed on a 9GB partition of a 30GB hard disk, alongside Win XP Home. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I would suggest using yum (yellowdog update manager) to do package management. I believe it comes with fedora core 1. Look at the man page for it "man yum". You will probably want to change the repositories it looks at.... these should be stored in /etc/yum.conf

Do a google search for ("fedora core 1" yum.conf) to get some better examples.

Hi

I used to work with mandrake 9.0 and recently moved to fedora core 1.

I have the same problem with package management. Can not use add remove package to install any new packages.

The removal has no problems but when I try to add some packages I got that message :

"An Error accured.Exiting."

I just noted that in the system log there is a warning that repeats every time and it is :

"localhost kernel: cdrompen failed. "

As a newbie I dont know if it has any thing to do with the package management or how to solve this problem.
Any kind of comments will be appreciated.
Thanks . . .