On Friday 18 May 2001 1:31 pm, mikepolniak wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2001 17:26, Ben Burton wrote: > > > > > kpackage. But kpackage fails to start from icon or cmd line. > > > > > Everything > > > > > > I've had this on my system too. It was gone after apt-get install > > > rpm... > > > > Hi Mike.. someone else has had the same problem that was solved by > > installing package rpm (thanks Andre!). Could you please test this also > > - install package rpm - and if everything works we can let Ivan know that > > his Recommends: rpm needs to be a Depends:. > > I tested this on one of my Debian systems and removing rpm caused the crash > of kpackage.After reinstalling rpm , kpackage started up fine. So it > appears that with Debian, rpm is a Depends.
I don't know if this info is useful or relevant to you guys, but on my Debian 2.2r2 / KDE 2.1.1 (without the kdelibs 2.1.2 update) / kpackage 2.1.1-0 / kernel 2.2.19 / package rpm *not* installed, kpackage starts fine, but always pauses on the way up to display a dialog box containing the message "Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading : No such file or directory". [ I suppose it should handle the missing rpm tool more gracefully than that ] After that, kpackage initialises, and seems to process deb packages fine. I haven't tried it with an rpm, so I wouldn't know. It never crashes in any way. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK
