On 28 Mar 2000 15:14:50 -0500, James Intriglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I sure had a tough time figuring out what to do to upgrade GNOME to the next
>stable release (RH V6.1?). I'm not alone, as most answers from numerous
>Usenet posts suggested I just upgrade to RH6.1, rather than try to figure
>out what RPM's needed to be obtained/run to upgrade GNOME to the level it
>was at for RH V6.1 release. Not liking that approach to things (sounds like
>the familiar M$ "jsut reload Windows fix") I decided to figure out how to
>upgrade just GNOME.
If you have a given set of packages you want to install, one approach that
I use to get the dependencies all sorted out is:
mkdir tmp-install-dir
cd tmp-install-dir
mv initialpackages.rpm... .
do:
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
if deps-error:
download packages to meet dependencies
until !deps-error
You get the idea,
-- Elliot
"Moron of the week" for four years running
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