Brilliant! I broke everything.

Well, that's not entirely true, I didn't break everything. Lappy still works as a whole, however...
Firefox won't open.
Pirut won't open.

When I try to open Firefox, I get the loading thing around my cursor for about a minute and a half, and then it goes back to doing nothing.

When I tried to open Pirut to see if I had accidentally uninstalled Firefox somehow (this all happened after trying to install Firefox 3), I got this:

Code:

Component: pirut
Summary: TB76714bb2 config.py:80:__set__:ValueError: Error parsing 'NOT': invalid boolean value

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 476, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 469, in main
    pm = PackageManager(options.config, options.onlyrepo)
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 63, in __init__
    GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 129, in __init__
    plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 113, in doConfigSetup
    errorlevel=errorlevel)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 164, in _getConfig
    self.getReposFromConfig()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 237, in getReposFromConfig
    thisrepo = self.readRepoConfig(parser, section)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 259, in readRepoConfig
    repo.populate(parser, section, self.conf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 376, in populate
    setattr(self, name, value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 80, in __set__
    raise ValueError('Error parsing %r: %s' % (value, str(e)))
ValueError: Error parsing 'NOT': invalid boolean value

Local variables in innermost frame:
obj: remi-test
self: <yum.config.BoolOption object at 0x852ddec>
e: invalid boolean value
value: NOT

Before this, I should add that I was messing around with Pirut to try and install available packages that I hadn't gotten to yet. Each time I tried that, though, it would say that it couldn't find the dependencies needed.

So, I guess I have two questions: First, WTF did I do? Second, how do I fix it?

 

Don't know why Pirut is acting like it is? Are you trying to launch it from the commandline or from the menu? Whether installing FF3 somehow impacts Python, I have no idea?

As to Firefox ... it's possible that installing FF3 replaced the shell script that is/was: /usr/bin/firefox although I wouldn't expect that to be the case. What does this command in a terminal yield?:

ls -l /usr/bin/fire*

Cheers.

 

It says there's no such file or directory.

I've tried opening Pirut from both the menu and the terminal, either way it gives me the same message.

 

Sorry, but I don't know what you got there? Looks like no firefox is there, neither 2 nor 3. You might try installing firefox from the commandline. Command is probably:

sudo yum install firefox

Cheers.

 

Yikes, I must have accidentally deleted it.
I have Pirut working again, though. I cleared out my yum cache and it starting working again. Maybe I installed a Fedora-9 package?

Okay.... trying to install firefox, but no dice. No package found (which is odd, considering I have the tar.bz2 sitting right here, as well as the decompressed version). I'm probably just being newbie-stupid. Any help?


EDIT: Huzzah for Google!
Found this guide: http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/inst ... e-one.html
Works so far. Now then, to back this up for next time I decide to screw around...