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

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, I like RedHat (or Mandrake) better then Suse, but it's been awhile 
since I've tried it. 

Mandrake is a good choice if you're going to use KDE as your desktop, since 
that's it's default desktop and they keep it very up to date in the 
distribution and include extras for it that Red Hat doesn't (didn't?).

Greg


On Wednesday 31 December 1969 18:00, you wrote:
> I've run both if I were going to upgrade I would change to SuSe 7.2
> I feel that it is a smoother set up.
>
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> Behalf Of Burt Humburg
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 8:41 AM
> To: ACLUG
> Subject: [aclug-L] RPM... Aaugh!
>
>
>
> 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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