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Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 12:30PM

By Eric Richardson

There are times when I absolutely hate computers.

Today at work I had to upgrade my computer to Fedora Core 2. Simple enough. Then I decided to use the system-config-packages utility to install some GNOME software I hadn't installed with RH9 (and it hadn't given me any opportunity to include in the upgrade process). :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 1 needed to install packages

Fair enough... :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 2 needed to install packages
"Fedora Core 2" disk 3 needed to install packages

Still ok... :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 1 needed to install packages

Wha? :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 2 needed to install packages

Ummm.... :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 1 needed to install packages

Wait just a minute... Let's pay a little more attention here. It installs gphoto2... :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 2 needed to install packages

Installs some more packages :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 3 needed to install packages

Install one or two things... :

"Fedora Core 2" disk 2 needed to install packages

Three more packages. :

And now it says it's done. Whoever designed this app, I strongly dislike you at the moment.