----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] fsv-0.9-1mdk.rpm
>
> For un-installed packages, I just did an
>
> rpm -ip /E/M*/R*/* > /root/allpkgs
>
> and then I grep in there when I want to figure out what Mandrake failed
> to install that it should have . . . [See item #4e of my "Suggestions"
> mail to get what this last bit is referring to.]
>
> Is there some more elegant/standard way to do this?
>
> Perhaps future Mandrake disks could have some such thing on the disk
> someplace already?
>
>
> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | I hope this is what you were looking for..
> |
> | On a system with the libraries:
> |
> | rpm -qf /path/to/lib
> |
> | .. will report the package it came from.
> |
> | Does that help?
> |
> | Don Head
> | Linux Mentor
> | Wave Technologies, Inc.
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935]
> | [IRC - EFnet, #WaveTech, Don-Wave]
> |
> |
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: WH Bouterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> | Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:58 PM
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: [Cooker] fsv-0.9-1mdk.rpm
> |
> |
> |
> | The fsv-0.9-1.i386.rpm works (albiet slowly)
> | on my oldest, slowest machine with LM-6.1 and extras
> |
> | The fsv-0.9-1mdk rpm from contribs on my faster machine
> | with LM7.0x/Cooker does not perform as well.
> | It gave no error messages while installing.
> |
> | My initial attempt to install the non-mdk rpm
> | on the newer machine gave some errors re :
> | libMesaGL.so.3 and libMesaGU.so.3 missing
> |
> | So the older machine has those,The newer machine does not.
> | The older machine has a better video card with 8mgs
> | The newer machine has 4mgs.(Silly isn't it!)
> |
> | Question 1# Refresh my memory (again) how to locate the
> | package(s) containing the missing libs. An 'rpmfind' turned
> | up a SUSE rpm and I wasnt sure whether to go ahead?
> |
> | When packages are installed on the newer machine
> | I will first test then uninstall the mdk rpm,
> | and install the i386rpm to see if the 3d style rendering
> | works and if not will know the video card "can't cut it"
> |
> | This file viewer is very "eye-catching" and "snazzy" and
> | if it really works could be another enticement to lure
> | away potential converts from the "DarkSide". Whether functionally
> | useful on a faster machine remains for others with more
> | horsepower to decide.
> |
> | William Bouterse
> | presently of Juneau Alaska
> --
> I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
> I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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> I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
>
