I`m having problems doing, pretty much anything in linux.
I installed FC5 and so far i haven't got it to do anything i wanted. I tried to install java development tools and was told that there were conflicts and it couldnt be done. I tried to install vlc so i could listen to music while i work and it told me there were a lot of missing files (mostly starting with lib). I tried other music players and none of them will install, each giving different errors about missing dependencies and/or conflicts with other files.

I don't have a clue where to start. I tried doing yum update (i dont know what this does) to see if that helped but it wont work because everything is broken :-)

I really dont want to have to re-install linux because i have a tendancy to break my whole hd when i mess about with OSs. I have a load of **** i dont wanna lose on my windows partitons.

Im not experienced with Linux but im sure someone who is will be along soon!

hello mintedjo,

i don't know alot about linux myself but i have the same as you

basiclly what yum update does is that it updates all of your software also what are the error messages that you get when you try to run yum update?

give me a couple of minutes to log into linux and i will find some websites that i have in my favorites that wil maybe help you

genie3251

Transaction Check Error: file /etc/named.conf from install of bind-9.3.3-0.1.rc2.fc5 conflicts with file from package caching-nameserver-7.3-5.FC5

Thats what i get when i do yum update. It stops there.

hey mintedjo,

can you give this a try

copy and paste this while you are root

Thanks, but it didn't really do anything...
Just brought up yum help
Any more ideas?

ok i also found this 5 step procedure follow the steps and let me know if it fixed your problem

If working with a fresh install, begin with step 1 below. All others probably can skip step 1.
Step 1: yum --exclude=bind* upgrade
Step 2: yum remove bind* caching-nameserver*
Step 3: yum clean all
Step 4: yum install caching-nameserver*
This not only installs the caching-nameserver, but it also installs bind-libs and bind as dependencies. This seems to resolve the conflict, and no fix is required. However, the bind-utils package is not installed.
Step 5: yum install bind-utils

hope this helps

genie3251