Julie wrote:
I was responsible for starting the thread about the dependency hell as related
to the Gourmet RPM. PYGTK2 was the easy package to get, it had dependencies
with dependencies and along the way one of these was an older version of
something that MDV already had. From there it went crazy and as a relatively
timid tinkerer, I gave up. I haven't given totally up on MDV but use Gourmet
on a Knoppix system.
I am still wondering where you got this rpm, and what distro and release
it was built for?
Was this (rpm) supposed to be built for the distro release you are running?
If not, you just cant grab most rpms and try to install it on any system
without knowing what it was built for. Some work across several distro
releases, some don't.
There are ways to get around there being no correct rpm for a given
system, but I am still curious about the rpm. Can you share more about it.
If this was an rpm made for the Mandriva release you are running, and
you had all of your urpmi sources installed, it should have just
installed and worked. (That simply.) That it didn't, makes me wonder
where it came from and what it was built against. Mandriva is one of the
easiest and friendliest distros to install packages into.
Mandriva and it's urpmi system doesn't suffer from dependency hell
unless you are trying to install something that won't work with your
system as it is :)
And lastly, if this is a really good package (and it sounds like it is
from what you've said), is compatible with a modern distro, and is GPL,
you might want to request an rpm via the Mandriva Club page. If a
volunteer takes on the package, you'll have an rpm package(s) available
in Contribs :)
Rick Kunath
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