[Yum] newbie

[Michael Stenner]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:05:14PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Steve Ingraham wrote:
> >Yeah, well that makes two of us then it appears.  I fully acknowledge to
> >everyone in the world reading my posts that I don't know much of what I
> >am doing when working in Linux.  I try to read as much as I can about
> >these systems and try to decipher what all the talk means but frankly I
> >have a hard time following the rules of the road in this operating
> >system sometimes.
> 
> I can sympathise with that, but to me it sounds as if your predecessor 
> has left you with some serious problems:
> 
> (a) an unmaintainable operating system which we can't help you with
> (b) a private, undocumented "Install" command which we can't help you with

I suspect he was simply running "install" (ginstall, from coreutils)
not understanding what it does.  That install does provide the error
message Steve reported.

					-Michael
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