package installer problems on various flavors of linux
it's happened to me on fedora, redhat, debian and somehow with a little effort i've gotten past these installation problems, but now playing with redhat
i'd expect it not to be an issue maybe cuz its a paid subscription.
who knows.
when installing software using the 'software' package installer, i click the little check which might indicate a selection is made, and click apply changes and it circles for a second
and then just sits there.
question a. is there anyway to force it to apply the changes NOW? is this a thing? is it waiting for something (reboot)
sometimes it actually installes the package right then and there, other times it just does this
yet, other times, it asks for confirmation that you want to install the package and then fails
it's rhel client 7.3
sometimes i go to apt-get and/or yum or whatever, but this time --it's actually chrome i'm trying to install ... everything is failing
i tried uninstaiing and then reinstalling and that failed
-dj
i'd expect it not to be an issue maybe cuz its a paid subscription.
who knows.
when installing software using the 'software' package installer, i click the little check which might indicate a selection is made, and click apply changes and it circles for a second
and then just sits there.
question a. is there anyway to force it to apply the changes NOW? is this a thing? is it waiting for something (reboot)
sometimes it actually installes the package right then and there, other times it just does this
yet, other times, it asks for confirmation that you want to install the package and then fails
it's rhel client 7.3
sometimes i go to apt-get and/or yum or whatever, but this time --it's actually chrome i'm trying to install ... everything is failing
i tried uninstaiing and then reinstalling and that failed
-dj
serialband
What error messages do you get?
RedHat/CentOS/Fedora all have very... loose... dependency checking, so if you use these, you'll always end up investing large amounts of time into solving problems.
Debian/Ubuntu packaging has very good dependency checking, so you should rarely have problems.
As serialband suggested, provide exact errors you're receiving + likely someone can help.
Also, if you're starting a fresh project, stick with the latest Ubuntu LTS to optimize your time getting things working.
Chrome installs fine for me on different machines... all running Ubuntu Bionic (more recent LTS version).
Debian/Ubuntu packaging has very good dependency checking, so you should rarely have problems.
As serialband suggested, provide exact errors you're receiving + likely someone can help.
Also, if you're starting a fresh project, stick with the latest Ubuntu LTS to optimize your time getting things working.
Chrome installs fine for me on different machines... all running Ubuntu Bionic (more recent LTS version).
apt-get install chromium-browserASKER
I'm trying to learn all the distros. Debian is easy Ubuntu is too easy. Arch is too hard. Slackware is about right. Please porridge in the pot 9 days old.
I'm currently experimenting with redhat.
I don't really get an error. I tried to cat the /var/log/error but I didn't find /var/log/error so that presents a problem.
I think I could progress if I had /var/log/error
Do I have to turn it on?
/var/log/secure I assume is security logs they are there,
Some other logs are there, but not 'error'
I'm currently experimenting with redhat.
I don't really get an error. I tried to cat the /var/log/error but I didn't find /var/log/error so that presents a problem.
I think I could progress if I had /var/log/error
Do I have to turn it on?
/var/log/secure I assume is security logs they are there,
Some other logs are there, but not 'error'
Most package managers require not only networking to be fully up, but also DNS resolution. So test with something like ping www.google.com and see if that is working.
In Redhat you either use yum in the command line, or Pirut in the gui. Pirut is called from a link called "Package Management Tool",
while yum is called from a command prompt by "yum update"...
In Redhat you either use yum in the command line, or Pirut in the gui. Pirut is called from a link called "Package Management Tool",
while yum is called from a command prompt by "yum update"...
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