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However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying). Anybody else confirm correct me on this? I prefer to do download and install from the command prompt. But then I like being in control :-) its a linux thing :-) John On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:58:04+0100 Derek Jennings<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 7:23 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > > > I have "gaim" up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo > > messenger programs. > > > > I was never able to follow your instructions using "urpmi" - I tried > > : > > > > urpmi.addmedia texstar > > ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with > > hdlist.cz > > > > many times and never got it to work. I then tried another suggestion > > by someone else and the file was available and was downloading for a > > couple of hours until I gave up - it never finished. > > > > Then I went to the texstar ftp site , downloaded the file in a > > couple of minutes and clicked on the file and it installed in > > another couple of minutes - all by itself - > > > > Question is why is this not the preferred method of installing new > > software - ? Am I missing something ? > > > > urpmi is better than just downloading the package because Linux apps > are modular. They depend on each other. If you install an app using > urpmi it will automatically work out which other apps/libraries are > needed, find them on the web and install them too. > > You were lucky with gaim because you already had all the dependencies > installed. Had one been missing the install would have failed. > > With urpmi you do not even need to know where an app is on the net. > You just declare a number of 'sources' and whichever one has the most > up to date version of the application you want will be used. You can > use the Mandrake software manager to browse the available apps. > > The reason you had trouble with Texstars urpmi source is because you > were using the mirror in Turkey which is ***dreadful*** > 'urpmi.removemedia texstar' will get rid of it. > Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php to find the path to > Texstars ibiblio mirror. While there add a source for contrib and plf > and you will gain access to many hundreds of cool applications. > > derek > -- > ---------------------------------- > www.jennings.homelinux.net > > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web: http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ: 92791912 & vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked] / \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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