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> Subject: [Cooker] ImageMagick and Netscape
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> Being new to the cooker list, I would to get some feedback on
> proper use and reporting expectations.
>
have you read cooker faq yet?
> I wanted to update to Netscape 4.74 on my LM7.1 version.
> I got the files from cooker and found it had dependancies,
> which I got. Problem was that at some point I found it hard
> to figure out what RPMs I needed to get. I found out about
> rpmfind and this has helped.
>
> Throughout the whole process (at some point), I was not able
> to install ImageMagick-5_2_2-6mdk_i586.rpm because of
> rpm -Uvh ImageMagick-5_2_2-6mdk_i586.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> ImageMagick-lib = 5.2.2 is needed by ImageMagick-5.2.2-6mdk
> libdps.so.1 is needed by ImageMagick-5.2.2-6mdk
> libdpstk.so.1 is needed by ImageMagick-5.2.2-6mdk
>
the libdps* are so files provided by the XFree86 4.0.x package.
> I installed ImageMagick-lib, and rpmfind told me it wanted to
> install to transfer
>
>ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/XFree86-libs-4.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm
>
> So it requires XFree86 version 4 to be installed. I am not ready
> to install this now, so I have given up on ImageMagick (not important).
> Same is true for perl-Magick-5_2_2-6mdk_i586.rpm
>
> My questions...
> 1/ are cooker users expected to download and use *all* of the latest,
> or is it acceptable to grab only the wanted modules ?
well, you can do that, free software. but this comes with no warranty.
> 2/ is the next release of LM expecting to use XFree86 version 4 only ?
there are some compat libs for 3.3.6 availalbe but sure the 3.3.6 packages
have been removed already.
