On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 18:14, Ben Steeves wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 12:05, Chadley Wilson wrote: > > > But the question would be is how do know what the dependencies are I > > always have to find out the hard way which means trial for half an hour > > then error for three days then glory the app works. > > Is there no easy way. > > Yes there is -- it's called Yum and/or up2date. They are dependency > managers, and they handle the RPM crap for you -- if you work with them > and use channels to install your software. If you go in the back door > with apps compiled from source or use "foreign" RPMS that don't come > from any channel, you're going to run into problems. > > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves > > Which brings us back to the original problem of being behind a firewall and a proxy. None of them work! and I have tried a mountain of things and they still hang when fetching headers. I am getting annoyed having to repeat myself on this topic there is another thread of mails where I am trying to solve this. Anyway thanks for your input :-} Chad
