On Sunday 17 February 2002 09:04, you wrote: > I would like to upgrade the applications on my Mandrake 8.1, like Galeon > for example. But usually, grabbing an RPM from the net somewhere only > leads to a mess of dependency problems. I always try to chase down the > dependencies at least once or twice, but they often lead to more > problems until I might as well wait for Mandrake 8.2! > > I know RPM has its limitations, but it would seem that MDK builds posted > to rpmfind and other sources are so dependent on the Cooker/beta > Mandrake there's no chance to get it installed on a release version. > > Am I doing something wrong? Packages like Nautilus, Evolution, Mozilla, > Galeon, and a lot of KDE stuff have come a long way since 8.1 was > frozen. > > -- j rpmdrake (aka package manager) for GUI, or urpmi for CLI, will both attempt to resolve dependencies and offer to dl & install any needed packages.
You just have to define a source first -- john in sydney ================================= Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 1 hour 19 minutes =================================
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