RPMs which needed dependencies might not have been installed in SUSE. As regards sane, older sane were one application. Nowadays it comes with two sane-backends and sane front ends. Those who want t use xsane, front end is not necessary. This is once again application specific.
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 10:49, you wrote: > I removed the same RPM (sane) on my SuSE box with no problems at all, > installed the .tar file and everything works. > > David M. > > On Monday 17 December 2001 07:57 pm, you wrote: > > Whether it is SUSE or RH or Mandrake, When you remove an RPM, > > dependencies checking is a must. Otherwise some other programs may not > > work. It is not specific to a distro. > > Some rpms may not have dependencies. Remove the same rpm in any distro > > and see. > > > > On Monday 17 December 2001 22:13, David McGlone wrote: > > > well same thing happened to me, I lost all my backed up data that was > > > on 3 seperate ext2 partitions and 3 seperate partitions that I had > > > windows installs on (mostly games) and I never told mandrakes partition > > > tool to even touch them partitions. when I booted after my first > > > install which I installed over a SuSE install I got a kernel panic, I > > > wondered why such a thing happened, so I put the mandrake disk back in > > > and when I got to the partitioning tool, it showed no partitions at > > > all, they were all gone, it wiped out virtually everything except hda1. > > > > > > Well I proceeded to partition and finally install mandrake, I started > > > to use it and it seemed to be a nice OS until the time came that I > > > wanted to remove some rpm's and install different ones, and all I got > > > was dependency problems left and right. I tried and tried every way I > > > know, but it seems that when I wanted to remove 1 RPM from Mandrake, it > > > wanted to remove the whole Operating System. > > > > > > At this point, I totally gave up, stuck my SuSE install Disk in and > > > went back to SuSE. > > > > > > The way I see all this is, with Mandrake, you don't have much freedom. > > > If I cannot remove an rpm and install the .tar file instead, then I > > > think Mandrake is heading to Redmond. > > > > > > just my $.02 > > > > > > David M. > > > AIM: dmclgone27 > > > ICQ: 96210352 > > > > > > On Monday 17 December 2001 09:16 am, you wrote: > > > > Just to offer a contrasting and virtually worthless opinion here ... > > > > I'm not sure about the "slicker install" or "souped up". I lost > > > > Windows installs on two of my machines (Win98 and Win2000) because > > > > Mandrake 8.1's installer trashed my partition tables without giving > > > > me a way out, so I went back to Red Hat 7.2 and had a much better > > > > install experience. I use System Commander 7 as a boot manager, but > > > > Mandrake's installer wouldn't support writing the boot code on the > > > > Linux boot partition for another boot manager to "pick up", it > > > > absolutely insisted on writing it's boot block to the MBR, which is > > > > not polite, and more to the point, is not compatible with System > > > > Commander. > > > > > > > > I'll try Mandrake again this week, because many people have a very > > > > high opinion (I'm still subscribed to this list, obviously). > > > > > > > > If someone does know how to instruct Mandrake's installer to put it's > > > > boot block on /boot (folks seem to call this a "superblock", > > > > apparently), please tell me - I'd really like to give Mandrake a run > > > > - but please don't tell me to trash System Commander: I've paid for > > > > it, I like it, and it's friendly to my family users, who don't want > > > > to have to learn anything else :-) > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042
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