-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wim Horst wrote: > Op woensdag 6 november 2002 20:27, schreef Marcel Pol: > >>On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:12:02 +0000 >> >>Wim Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Op maandag 4 november 2002 23:35, schreef Leon Brooks: >>> >>>>We have most of the technology, we can do it... >>>> >>>> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/135233 >>>> >>>>Question for those on the list who still use Windows for soem things >>>>(e.g. work desktop): >>>> >>>> What would you like carried across into Linux? >>> >>>easy installation of programs >>>Lets take gstreamer >>>In this list i read something about it. Tryed to install it. Toke me 2 >>>hours >>> >>>because off all the dependencys. Some libs i did not find. I am not a >>>total fool installing this kind of programs. The averidge pc/windows user >>>just wants to try and install a program. >> >>Was that with urpmi, or did you use rpm by hand? > > > I didnt succeed with urpmi because you have to tell it where to search for > hdlist which is called syntesysblablabla. I am not clearvoyant and didnt know > this. And why should i know this. It is something the program could do. We > are talking here about those little annoying things that make windows users > say linux sucks. > >
Any installation will setup the urpmi sources for the media it was installed from. Unfortunately, contrib does not get set up automatically, but it would have taken you much less than 2 hours to get a contrib source set up for urpmi. And the next time it would take much less time to install something. Did you try google?: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=add%20urpmi%20source%20contrib - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9z4ndrJK6UGDSBKcRAvybAKCwRP1gVY88zAibYOTy6GPwEzOv4wCfbFF8 XQQ1ex5B9GwFeOmwh5ApAKQ= =vde4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
