[aclug-L] RPM... Aaugh!

["Burt Humburg" <bhumburg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I went to rpmfind.net and started finding the rpm files that are
needed for the latest version of KDE. One by one I would install them, but
they would more often than not report that there was some other file that
they needed. This file would then need others and that file would need
others from there.

Eventually, I got to the point where I had to install the latest version of
RPM. I did, but something didn't work right and now everytime I run RPM, it
tells me that there was some kind of error. (Basically, I FUBARed my RPM
application.)

I therefore have several questions.
1) Would it be worth upgrading to RH 7.1 rather than going through all this
business?
2) How do I reinstall RPM from my Linux installer CD's? (I used RH 7.0.)
3) Am I installing software the most efficient way there is? (I seek to
install an IDE for C/C++ programming for the KDE version that comes with RH
7.0. I am told, in order to run KDevelop, that I must upgrade to the latest
version of KDE, which demands the sorts of hoop-jumping that I have been
doing.)

Thanks in advance!

BCH
--who is starting to see a mote of virtue in microsoft's "dumb it down to
the lowest common denominator" model of software installation

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Burt C. Humburg
4th Year Medical Student
University of Kansas School of Medicine
http://www2.kumc.edu/students/bhumburg

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