David Ramsey wrote:
>
> [snip]
> pretty much select any package you want. And then it seems that it will
> make all the required entries in the environment and required symbolic
> links. Otherwise, if you just install the RPM file, it does not.
Please understand that the only thing the installer does is use RPM to
install a list of packages. Just like you'd do from the command line.
The same things happen in either case. Symbolic link and environment
creation gets done by post-install scripts within the RPM package that
would run the same at install time as they do at the command line.
My guess is that you were missing other packages and took the "voodoo
problem resolution" method popularized by Windows and reinstalled. If
you expect to get much further than the three-days-at-a-time Linux
usage, you're going to have to take a bit more time in researching and
resolving the problem.
Just as an example of the "voodoo problem resolution" method: I work in
the IS department with one other person. Part of our job entails
monitoring a SQLBase SQL server for crashed and hung processes. We got
a call one afternoon that the server was hung. I opened the console
tool, found the offending process, and killed it. My partner, who was
in the bathroom at the time, came out and declared with a straight face
that flushing the urinal must have cleared it up. THAT is what voodoo
problem resolution is. No effort to understand the problem or
resolution, just declaring that "something" must have fixed it.
--
Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
