On Friday 15 February 2008 18:23:15 Duncan wrote:
> Interesting. So all you needed was an rpm handler? I thought pclinuxos
> was based on mandr(ake|iva), and thus rpm based already, and that it
> followed that it had rpm handling built-in? Is that incorrect?
Not really. It does have RPM, but for some reason 'rpm -i <package>'
caused "Cannot obtain lock" errors. Nothing to do with dependencies.
Mandriva has URPMI. PCLinuxOS has KPackage (which hooks into Konqueror).
Using Kpackage with an RPM just sails through...
> Or maybe you just didn't know how to use the CLI rpm command and needed a
> point and click GUI.
Not true - but GUI avoids having to type in (or copy) great wadges of file
address.
> Anyway, what I expected was wrong was that the rpm was listing
> dependencies
Well, there was a dependency, which I knew about, but I couldn't install the
required RPM to satisfy it! The problem was I didn't have KPackage...
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