Julie wrote:
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
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I am curious about the rpms still... do you know which Mandriva release
these rpms you were using were built against?
If you can remember where you got them (mirror, directory path, anything
that might help), I may be able to take a look and see what they were
built against, and see what happened, and why.
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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).
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I had that problem here (dial-up) for years, but am fortunate to have
broadband now.
I often did what you do, downloading at work, and installing at home. I
used CD/CDRW then, but these days a cheap USB pen drive works wonders.
Here's what worked for me regarding dial-up and location-shifting
downloading:
I installed the main, contribs, plf-free, plf-non-free urpmi sources at
home. These can be updated easily as to their file lists, even on a
dial-up connection. When I wanted to install small packages, I just let
urpmi (or usually the GUI in MCC) install them via dial-up. For large
groups of packages, I'd get the list of stuff urpmi wanted to install
(usually via the GUI), head to work the next day, download them from the
appropriate mirror subdirectory using any good ftp client, then return
home and copy them into the /var/cache/urpmi/rpms (as root). Once that
was done, if you run urpmi (or the GUI as I usually do) you'll see the
package list again, just as you did pre-download and copying. This time,
check-off the packages for install, and urpmi will discover that it
already has the packages downloaded in it's rpms directory, and install
them without downloading via dial-up. When they are installed, urpmi
deletes the files.
For small stuff, it really isn't worth the trouble, as even on dial-up
downloading moderate size packages works well, but it is a huge help for
big stuff and massive updates.
At the end of my location-shifting dial-up time, I discovered a really
helpful Windows app that made this even easier. I had been using a
program called GetRight as a Windows download manager to add the resume
capability to ordinary Windlows downloads for years. Any good FTP
clients will already do this, though GetRight will continually try to
resume failed downloads (within limits you can set, using either http or
ftp) to make sure they are completed. There is an add-on available from
the program's makers that allows it to be remote controlled via an email
message. This was the absolute coolest, as it allowed me to send
GetRight an email at work from home wih the list of stuff I wanted
downloaded. It then grabbed the stuff at night for me at work, didn't
choke down the work bandwidth during work hours, and the files were
there waiting for me in the morning. You set up a web based email
account for just the purpose, and email to that, not your usual work
account. I don't know if you can get an app like this installed at work,
but it might be helpful to you. I don't have any connection with these
folks, but am ust a satisfued user. It sure made my life easier when I
was on dial-up. And the app has been stable and reliable.
Here's the URL about the email remote-control:
http://www.getright.com/mailcontrol.html
Hopefully some of this will turn out to be of some use.
Rick Kunath
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