new to Linux
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Nov 14 16:11:13 CST 2003
On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:39 pm, Rick Franklin wrote:
> Question #1: What is a good source for a new user to learn how to
> properly install rpm's?
A quick search for "RPM" on http://www.tldp.org turned up both the
RPM-for-Unix-HOWTO and a chapter in Linux Administration Made Easy (LAME) on
using RPM.
"Dependency hell" is nothing compared to the hell you can get into trying to
compile a new package which either assumes you have a full development
environment, or a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with your
system. I once had a package that linked to libraries that were specific to
a certain video card! Command-line RPM is a little tricky, as you have to
locate and provide any necessary dependencies, but the GUI tools, up2date,
and URPMI have all made great advances toward automatically locating,
downloading, and installing dependencies. Still not perfect, but...
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