Mostly Harmless

Kubuntu is currently my desktop OS of choice for 40+ hours a week of paid eye strain. It’s a good OS, basically Ubuntu with KDE as the desktop environment, however over the three or four years I’ve been using it the quality of the package management GUI applications has been somewhat variable.  What we have [...]

Odd error when running yum update on my slice. This appears to be a currently outstanding bug which can be worked around by issuing a

user@computer:$ yum clean metadata

or

user@computer:$ yum clean all

The former worked fine for me. Original error shown below.

user@computer:$ yum updateSetting up Update ProcessResolving Dependencies–> Running transaction checkTraceback (most recent call last):File “/usr/bin/yum”, line [...]

One of the things about having your own little server, not really used for anything absolutely critical to anyone is that you can install updates as soon as you like. Non critical updates are one of those things that you have to do sooner or later and for non critical systems it can often be [...]