On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:34 +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
My current question, therefore, is how do I get into /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages copies of the dbus-python rpm's files that will work?
Hrmm, I'm afraid that's a bit beyond me. I'm not terribly familiar with rpm-based distros any more (the last time I used FC was at FC2; after that I switched to Ubuntu). I suspect that perhaps there's something about DBUS on FC3 that isn't "good enough" for Democracy. I'd really recommend, as the others have, upgrading.
One last thing. Craig raised a wry smile on my face by telling me upgrading was good. I've been wanting to upgrade for ages, but I'm too afraid. What I really need is a step-by-step guide in words of one syllable, explaining to me how to prepare for an upgrade, so that, after upgrading, I'll still have all my current data, my applications that I've separately installed and my settings for my current applications. Without that security blanket, I feel I'm stuck with FC3 indefinitely.
Again, as mentioned, it should be as simple as sticking in an FC5 CD and letting it run. However, you should obviously back up your data first. Do you have a separate /home partition? This makes upgrading really easy, because it's seldom that updates of apps are not backwards compatible with their .files or .dirs which are stored in the /home dir. I've fresh installed Ubuntu a couple of times in the last few weeks (playing around with Edgy) and provided I run the set up correctly and use the right username, I can log into Gnome from a fresh install and have all my customizations already there. I just have to install some additional applications. If you haven't got a separate home dir, though, you could always simply cp -r everything to a USB drive and then reverse the process once you've reinstalled. Depends on your filesystem layout though. Maybe we should have another InstallFest (: