if you want to upgrade X programs, why not use rpmdrake to do it? it would check the dependencies of various rpm package. I guess it works. But I never tried. :)
Good luck, /Jun On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:08:55PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: :The responses in this thread so far have not been encouraging. : :I wonder if there are any other "power" users (i.e., people who work :their system pretty hard) who have had experiences that refute the :postings so far. : :I am running 7.2, but the lack of library support for recent packages :is beginning to be a pain. And there have been enough horror stories :from 7.2 people trying to install more recent libraries that I haven't :wanted to try that either. However, I did just acquire a big second :disk, so now I can experiment some with 8.0 and 8.1 to see if I can get :either of them working as well as 7.2 has been doing, without affecting :my stable 7.2 installation at all. Even so, war stories from people :who've tried this before can be very informative. : : Doc Evans : :-------------------------------------------------------------- :Phone: +1 303 494 0394 :Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 :Fax: +1 781 240 0527 :-------------------------------------------------------------- : :Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? :Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
