On Tuesday 19 February 2008 06:38:03 Glenn wrote: > 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.
Oops. Just remembered that you were speaking of Old-Pan. That's not in the repositories, hence the problems. For normally resident programs in the repositories, Synaptic _would_ have been the correct answer to the question. In your case, that wasn't a viable path. Sorry for the noise. -- 06:39:49 up 5 days, 23:56, running PCLinuxOS release 2007 (PCLinuxOS) for i586, kernel 2.6.18.8.tex5 Registered Linux user #324360 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Team: Ex-Zoomies (31839) People usually get what's coming to them ... unless it's been mailed. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
