On Monday 02 October 2006 11:09, Scott Berry wrote: >Just do a yum smart-tray and you should get it. I got it last night just >fine I tried "yum install smart-tray" just now and got: No Match for argument: smart-tray Nothing to do >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:51 PM >Subject: Re: smart package mgr question? > >> On Sunday 01 October 2006 21:24, Kam Leo wrote: >>>On 10/1/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:35 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: >>>> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:25:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>> > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> > > >True, but ... the classical situation when apt/smart try to >>>> > > > downgrade is resolving broken package deps inside of an >>>> > > > installed system. apt and smart diagnose them and try to >>>> > > > resolve them (by downgrading), yum doesn't diagnose these >>>> > > > problems and lets users believe "everything is OK", while it >>>> > > > actually isn't. >>>> > > > >>>> > > >I.e. the fact yum doesn't complain, doesn't mean it is right. >>>> > > >>>> > > I have run into problems where apt tries to fix the repository >>>> > > issues and fails and doesnt let me perform other operations like >>>> > > updating a package which is completely unrelated to repo >>>> > > breakages. >>>> > >>>> > That's true, apt always checks the global health of your system and >>>> > bails out if it detects something broken to alert the user. That is >>>> > a debatable policy (there is no technical reason to do so) mostly >>>> > because it doesn't allow you to use apt anymore to fix the >>>> > breakage. >>>> >>>> I yum installed smart and now when I try to invoke it I get this.. >>>> [root@iam ~]# smart --gui >>>> error: Interface 'gtk' not available >>>> >>>> [root@iam ~]# >>>> >>>> Seems a dependency wasn't considered and I have everything gtk >>>> installed known to yum... via yum install gtk* ..about 40 megs worth >>>> and I still get this error. Ric >>> >>>Extras has four packages (smart, smart-update, smart-gui, and >>>ksmarttray) available for downloading. You need to install the first >>>three to get full capabilities. >> >> I cannot see ksmarttray in extras. > >Just do a yum smart-tray and you should get it. I got it last night just >fine > -- > >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> message by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
