Re: [newbie] Installing Checkinstall

2003-07-06 Thread Charlie
quoting Troy Davidson; Friday 04 July 2003 08:28 pm: Charlie, Thanks for the help. I got checkinstall installed without a hitch once I updated urpmi. What help? ;-) Happy to hear it Troy. Have fun! Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft

Re: [newbie] Installing Checkinstall

2003-07-04 Thread Troy Davidson
Charlie, Thanks for the help. I got checkinstall installed without a hitch once I updated urpmi. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quoting Troy Davidson; Thursday 03 July 2003 01:02 pm:

[newbie] Installing Checkinstall

2003-07-03 Thread Troy Davidson
I am trying to install checkinstall from RPMs. I go to install the checkinstall RPM and it says it needs the libcheckinstall RPM. So, I try to install the libcheckinstall RPM and it says it needs the checkinstall RPM to install. How can I tell an RPM where to find another RPM needed for

Re: [newbie] Installing Checkinstall

2003-07-03 Thread Troy Davidson
If you're just clicking on the RPM in Konqueror and installing from there you must be running as root; which is probably not the brightest thing to be doing. Or are you getting the root permissions needed, password required dialogue? I'm not running as Root. You will actually get a

Re: [newbie] Installing Checkinstall

2003-07-03 Thread Charlie
quoting Troy Davidson; Thursday 03 July 2003 01:02 pm: whack I'm not running as Root. You will actually get a prompt to enter in the root password and then go on from there. Excellent. Running as root when it isn't needed tends to be unhealthy for the system. Too much hanging out for the