[linux-help] Re: help installing programs

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

what are the commands you are using?  output?  error messages?  etc...  
it's really hard to diagnose something w/o a lot of information...

gLaNDix


On Friday 16 August 2002 11:45 pm, you wrote:
> the program I am ito install is Qmail I found in the form of an rpm,
> I got it from www.qmail.org.  What happens is that when I start the
> program to install it, it brings me to a menu where I can choose the
> program I want to install.  then after I click that program, it takes
> me right back to the biggening, and I have to do it all over again,
> it just goes in one big circle.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 6:44 PM
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: help installing programs
>
> > You did not say what exactly is happening. I assume you mean it is
> > telling you that dependencies are not met and some other packages
> > are required.
> >
> > When this happens you must either:
> > 1. install the required package first.
> > 2. install all required packages at the same time.
> >
> > do a man on rpm and it will help.
> >
> > If you post the package you are trying to install and the results
> > of the attempt to install it, someone may be able to give you some
> > explicit pointers.
> >
> > The PC-Zone wrote:
> > > I am using RPM Programs, and am not having any luck getting them
> > > to
>
> install, every time I try installing them, it runs me arround in
> circles it seems like.  What is the best way to install these
> programs?
>
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