Matt wrote:
Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a
nightmare.
I couldn't agree more. I have had similar sad sagas more times than I
care to recall. For example, I tried to install the latest Gnucash,
which I've heard has many improvements over the version that came with
my
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] rpm catch22's
Matt wrote:
Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software
These issues have received a lot of press coverage recently. The new version
of GNUcash requires a great many packages that are not included in standard
distributions. Hopefully MandrakeSoft will include them in 8.1.
The main problem with RPM at present is its lack of an automated dependency
Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a nightmare.
I'm trying to install Wine, and I end up with a failed dependency for the
XFree86 development headers. Ok, so I go and get the latest rpm for that
(XFree86-devel-4.1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm), which in turn needs the latest X
