Upgrade Hell!

[elfs]

Under the heading of increadibly freaking stupid, file this. At work, I had one minor bug related to Safari, which is the browser that ships with Mac OS X. Not having a Mac myself, I dug around and discovered that the Unix windowing toolkit KDE 3.2 ships with Konqueror, the browser on which Safari is based (much the same way that Netscape is based on Mozilla), and Konqueror 3.2 even has a javascript debugging tool.

Unfortunately, RedHat only supplied KDE 3.1. Ah, but Fedora 2 ships with KDE 3.2. So in I go to the (blessedly, local) Fedora 2 tree and tell the installer, "install konqueror and all of its dependencies."

This is a bad move. The Fedora version depends on certain qualities in very low-level libraries like libc. Everything goes to Hell. And so, here it is, 9:15 pm, and I am just now gathering the capability to fix and check in the correct versions of my code, and go home.

When will I learn? Build from scratch, or don't mess with the OS.

Comments

[woggie.livejournal.com]

You know, it's stories like these that keep newbies from trying out Linux.
This may be a good thing, but it also may not be.

It is, however, an incentive to learn programming. :)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Well, my maneuver was about as boneheaded as installing something build
for Windows XP and expecting it to run correctly on Win 95. People do
that. My other bonehead mistake was expecting something from a test build to run correctly on a production OS.

[woggie.livejournal.com]

Granted.

So, are you still happy with RedHat? Or have you moved on (and if so, to what)?
I'd like your input if you wouldn't mind giving it.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Actually, yeah, I am mostly happy with RedHat. As long as what I install
was build for RedHat, it "just works".