Hi Jesse, Jon and Szemir, Thanks for all your good advice. I'll try to implement it. My desire to re-install comes from other problems which I haven't mentioned on clug-talk: e.g. the choose language window comes up when I boot, the Software Manager seems broken, etc.
Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:32 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] libdl > On Wed, 2007-31-01 at 11:56 -0500, R A L Carter wrote: > > Jesse, > > > > Thanks for your advice. I had used the Mandriva Software Manager > to try to find and install the 4 dependencies that the gretl rpm > lacked. However, the Software Manager couldn't find 2 of them and > when I told it to install the 2 it could find I got a list of 39 > other dependencies required! I tried installing them but got the > bad signatures message. > > If you have third-party packages, then it is not that unusual for them > to be unsigned, or for you to be missing the key. Download the missing > packages into one directory and then as root, run: > rpm -ivh *rpm > Then you should be able to use your software to install the rest of > them. For more information on using rpm, see: > http://www.clug.ca/node/236 > > > All this makes me think something is wrong with my installation > so I plan to either re-install from scratch or wait until Debian > 4.0 is released. > This is actually quite normal, it doesn't sound like your system is > broken. Instead of waiting for Debian 4, I'd recommend checking out > thelatest version of Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
