On Thursday 02 February 2006 10:24 am, Rick Kunath wrote:
> 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?
>
Last June, using Mandriva 2005LE, I tried 
gourmet-0.8.4.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm
when I was unsuccessful I tried
gourmet-0.8.3.4-1mdk.noarch.rpm
Dependencies with dependencies with dependencies as mentioned earlier, some 
required packages that were older than what MDV 2005LE had installed. I gave 
up.

In November, using Mandriva 2006, I tried again
gourmet-0.8.5.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm
when that had the same dependency problems, I tried the two older rpms but 
with no success. Again, I gave up.

> 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 :)

Ah, well, here's a bit of a problem. I am on a slow dial-up connection. Where 
I live, this is unlikely to ever change. So I like to download packages at 
work where I have a T-1 line. Unfortunately, there are no Linux systems 
available and therefore, no urpmi option. (At least I've convinced them to 
try OpenOffice 2 for that other operating system).

I haven't looked for a newer Gourmet rpm for Mandriva, perhaps a happy 
surprise awaits.

Julie
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