On Mon, 10 Jun, at 21:42:40 -0700, Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Always a very very bad sign with the request starts out with an apology > for being offtopic. The normal recommendation when you feel you have to > do this is "don't post it then." > > My first reaction was to be very curt, but I don't like it when people > do that to me, so I toned my response back to civil conversation. So > this email contains honest, direct responses instead of the smart-ass > comments I was about to write.
Thanks Todd, I do appreciate your constructive and informative response rather than the empty and worthless responses so common in most lists. > They probably felt it was just as OT there as it is here. So if not expert and/or cooker, what other list would you recommend for this question? Surely the developers and testers of urpmi should be a more valuable and respected source of accurate information than members of a RH list where most haven't even heard of urpmi. > Download the rpms and their dependencies and install it. urpmi is > standalone with some deps. You can get away with --nodeps in some > cases, but not all. > > http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ will probably be able to give you > more information as I suspect you'll find people there who have wanted > to go that way. I'll take a look. Thanks again for the positive response, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of something.
