Fedora - A confiusing operating system!!

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
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I don't know why all these complicated stuff?!
I have Fedora Core 3 installed on my Laptop. It has the apache 2.0 + php 4.3.0 installed on it. But for some reasons I need to remove them and install everything by myself.
However, I don't see any way to remove a software from this silly oprating system!!
Moreover, I installed a newer apache and it worked for the first time that I started it. After a reboot, when I wanted to start it again, it said: cannot access port 80 and something like that!!! One more problem was when I tried to install php and after configure I tried to run "make" command. At the end it said there are errors!! :smiley:

Why all these happening? Can anyone help me with this issue? hoffff :confused:

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you may want to try http://fedoraforum.org , you will probably get a very quick answer to your problem...

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im using fedora core 3 since last december
im happy with it.
though installation of some plugins might be difficult,
its because fedora core is a pure OPEN source OS,
where some licenses like mp3 are not included but can be available from different resources
in my blog i simplified some stuffs,
http://spaces.msn.com/members/chitlesh

its not like suse or mandrake where its spoonfeeding

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http://fedoraforum.org is the premier location where fedora questions are easily answered

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Oh guys, thank you all for the links.
In fact, I worked on Redhat since version 7.0 and I was happy with version 9.0, I installed fedora core 3 after that but it is very difficult to deal with I don't undrestand why is that! I have had really hard time to install some server related stuff and at the end I just decided to go back to redhat 9.0...

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it cld be hard, but thats the best way to learn.
my girlfriend just installed suse at her father's place,
since she is using FC3 and not a computer geek, i saw that she has a better understanding while she was explaingin stuffs to her parents

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To stop apache:

# service httpd stop

With regard to managing installed applications, check out apt for rpm. Also, this forum run by a wise man who like to talk Linux.

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Yes you are right. In fact, if someone wants to learn something, fedora is a good choice and I know that but it is just too complicated.

I installed fedora somewhere else to check things around; and I didn't request installation of http server , mysql and php. After it installed, I just downloaded all these stuff and installed them manually and now everything is fine. Feodra's installation sometimes is really confisuing.

Yes Tux but 'service' command does not work on my system!!

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try as root :slight_smile:

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You'd better read the readme files of all the softwares you want to install on your linux.
They will tell you what to do. And some times you have to install some other package to make your installation success.
Try use command RPM to uninstall the packages.