On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:10:34PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:47, David Fitch wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:39:31PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > <quote who="Jon Austin"> > > > > Should I work backwards installing dependencies? > > > > > > Yeah, install libdb2-util, and then try gmc again. gmc is the old GNOME file > > > manager, so you don't really need it. It's pretty sucky. ;) > > > > so what happened to the idea that apt-get works out all the > > dependencies and all that guff for you (given it's potato), > > sounds rather disappointing! > > Can everyone say "troll bait". That's the kind of glib comment I'd > expect on SLUG-Chat David ;)
ha! actually I was serious (and don't read slug-chat). IMO debians pkg management is one of the main reasons I prefer it. If you start getting all these dependencies problems like this you might as well go back to using redhat. Dave. PS. ok the redhat comment was a slight troll ;) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
