On Friday 15 February 2008 12:07:01 Maurice wrote: > 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). >
Actually, PCLinuxOS uses Synaptic as the GUI for the RPMs, which would have taken care of the dependencies for you, no problem. And, so far as the Mandriva-ness of it is concerned, it's steadily drifted from that over the last several major releases. -- 06:35:50 up 5 days, 23:52, running PCLinuxOS release 2007 (PCLinuxOS) for i586, kernel 2.6.18.8.tex5 Registered Linux user #324360 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Team: Ex-Zoomies (31839) He who laughs, lasts. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
