On Friday 29 October 2004 12:18, Ezra Banoba wrote: > Made a default installation of Suse and lent out my CD's > immediately...then tried to compile some package and got the 'gcc not > found'!!!
IIRC, following SuSE 8.0, multiple (and critical) packages aren't installed by default under a fresh install. Upgrading from older versions will maintain those important packages and upgrade them. They haven't changed much over the versions (including 9.x), so you can probably make a mental note of adding them when you do the first installation, especially if you later plan to install packages from source (and not on SuSE CD's). > Then tried to install some rpms and found each had a "VERY MANY" deps > and sub-deps...That gave me my very first <bad> impression/experience > with Suse and decided to keep it at minimum in my devel/production > server environments and leave it to desktop installations. > > > ++ Installing and Using apt-get on a dedrat 8.0 box , > > Have had some luck with apt-get though it first got bits of my system > out of sync with the rest of the system. But it still beats the manual > search and installation of dependencies. I honestly wouldn't recommend apt, unless it's a box you really love to trash and rebuild all month long. While the joy of running cutting-edge comes naturally, it breaks quite a few things on legacy RPM-platforms. I'd keep apt very far from production gear. But, YMMV. Mark. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
