[aclug-L] Re: RPM... Aaugh!

[phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is one of my biggest problems with kde and gnome.
i call it dependency hell.

yes it is unfortunate, but the best solution seems to be buying a new CD.
my recomendation is to also voice your opinion.  let the kde people know that 
this is not acceptable.  

on the bright side i don't have near the dependency problems with kde that i 
do with gnome.  I quite bothering with them altogether.

exit soap box.


On Sunday 24 June 2001 11:40, you wrote:
> 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
>
> -----
> Burt C. Humburg
> 4th Year Medical Student
> University of Kansas School of Medicine
> http://www2.kumc.edu/students/bhumburg
>
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