On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Larry Hignight wrote:
>Let me first start off by saying I love Mandrake and rpm .... I think both
>are great. However, I'm getting really frustrated with the rpm's that
>Mandrake is including in their distro. It seems like all of them have the
>syntax of rpmname-version#-mdk. This makes a simple rpm -Uvh upgrage nearly
>impossbile without rpm -e a bunch of stuff. For instance, the other day I
>needed to upgrade the SDL libraries, but in order to do it correctly I had
>to rpm -e probably 12 packages to install the current version of SDL. Now I
>want to upgrade esound and I'm afraid that in order to that I'll have to
>literally remove gnome and reinstall it. If anyone knows of a way to
>upgrade these packages please post it!!!! I'm going crazy thinking about
Is your problem that the RPM names are so long?
Have you ever heard of "file completion"? Type in 3 or 4 characters of the
name and press TAB. That will fill in as much as possible of the name.
Try it and be surprised.
Paul
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