July 7, 2002 08:08 am, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing some rpm packages (kde3) from the command line. It > failed on dependencies - seems that rpm thinks I have nothing installed! > I tried to run > rpm --initdb > It didn't help. When I typed > rpm -qa > It showed nothing. the rpm program I use is the one that came with the > distribution (8.2). > I later installed these packages with the software manager, and it > worked. > I guess that the software manager is just a front end to the same rpm, > so I probably have some problems with the parameters, but I have no idea > what it is. More generally, if I'm correct that these graphical tools > are just front end to command line tools, is it possible to make them > print what are the commands they perform? > > Moshe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you want to see what's happening "behind the scenes;" when running software manager (or almost any of the frontends such as Mandrake Control Centre which is activated by mcc in terminal or console) Moshe just open a terminal. su to root and type rpmdrake. The GUI will open but everything that it's doing for you will display in the terminal.
That's my 'cheaters way' to learn what processes do when running GUI frontends for commandline tools. It may not be the correct way to do things, but what the hell, it works, and I learn. <grin> HTH -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org An Italian is COMBING his hair in suburban DES MOINES!
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