Subject: Re: Success at Last on Old World G3
From: Robert Brandtjen (rob@prometheusmedia.com)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2001 - 09:07:38 MDT
on 9/8/01 9:49 AM, Åke Svensson at aakesve@algonet.se wrote:
> I run YDL on an old 7600 so I try not to run Kde or Gnome plus in either of
> those GUI's I couldn't install any of the rpm's on the tasty Morsels CD.
> However, when in Kde or Gnome (preferably Gnome) you could check out
> whatever rpm and Gnome (gnorpm I think I used) will tell you each rpm's
> dependency on other program packages. Then you could go out to the text
> console/the shell and type rpm -ivh xxxxxx.ppc.rpm and it'll install. Type
> rpm -Uvh xxxxx.ppc.rpm and you'll get an upgrade. Many programs has
> dependencies like the gcc compiler for example and they won't function
> without those other apps or libraries, so check the rpm's dependencies out
> first!
The RPM package managers are pretty flaky - IMHO, one app which will work
well and give a nice GUI to boot is webmin - I just love webmin.
Robert Brandtjen
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