Let's keep this on list - it wasn't my problem, and I see no reason for you to send this to me privately. On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 20:26 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > On Apr 3, 2005 7:18 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 19:03 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On Apr 3, 2005 5:36 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:15 -0700, kate wrote: > > > > > > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: openoffice.org is needed by > > > > > package openoffice.org-i18n > > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: system-config-printer is > > > > > needed by package system-config-printer-gui > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > I'll try the same syntax for oppenoffice.org and > > > > > system-config... > > > > > > > > You might consider installing a GUI based package manager such as > > > smart or synaptic (requires apt). The GUI will provide faster feedback > > > for all install packages as well as packages you plan to install. You > > > can get these from the DAG repo. > > ---- > > she's got a problem with multiple versions of the same packages. > > > > I know that installing apt pointing to an entirely different repository > > isn't going to help this problem. > > Apt need not point to exotic repositories. Many Fedora Core mirrors > are apt enabled. Apt has the advantage over yum in that you can use > "apt-get check" to check for broken dependencies. > > Synaptic provides a GUI for apt. Using synaptic she can see the > dependency issues right away, evaluate the recommended changes, and > decide on her course of action. > > > > > I don't know how smart would react to it and thus, I would never suggest > > this to her as a solution. > > > > If you 'know' that smart can fix this problem - then by all means, let > > us know. > > > > If you don't know that smart can fix this problem, would you suggest > > that your advice give above might not be the proper advice to give to > > her? > > > > Craig > > > > > > Smart Program Manager, http://smartpm.org , will definitely fix her > problem. It is in beta (currently at 0.30). Smart is very good at > resolving dependencies ( in my opinion much better than apt or yum ) > and from the GUI, smart-gui, will allow you to do on-the-spot > up/downgrade of packages as necessary to fix dependencies. > > The biggest compliant that I have with the smart is that you really > need a reasonably fast processor with more than 256 MB memory; > otherwise, you wait a long time for the program to update and itterate > through all of the enable repositories' meta data. > > You can get apt, synaptic, smart, smart-update, and smart-gui from Dag > Wieers site: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/ ---- I know apt/yum/up2date and smart Once again, her problem is that she has multiple versions of the same packages - not sure why I have to keep repeating this. Her problem is that she cannot solve dependency issues because there are multiple versions of the same package - in this case openoffice, system- config-printer and previously, it was php which we solved. Obviously, yum would be able to solve & install dependent packages if this problem didn't exist and the addition of another overlay program like apt is going to have the same problem. This isn't a yum problem - this is a problem with the base of rpm packages that are already installed on this system. I know that apt/yum/up2date cannot solve the problem of having multiple versions of the same packages and have had her resort to manually removing them with rpm -e --allmatches NAMES_OF_PACKAGES. I don't have a situation like this where I can test how smart would handle it and have no systems that I am willing to hose to find out. If you have a better idea, by all means express it. Craig
