Dear Mandrake Magicians, about Open SSH;
I am an Abject Newbie migrating from Mac OS 8.1 to Mandrake Linux 7.1 by
shifting my workload from my Apple Mac 7600/135 to my ASL Escaliber 300 Laptop
as I am able to do what I do on the Linux Box.
I want to describe myself. I am an EndUser evolving UPWARD
rather than a beleagered System Administrator and C-Programmer
fanning out into Unix/Linux and Open Secure Shell from NT.
I dutifully downloaded the crypto files, and began installing in
depslist-crypto order. I even read your usefull and clear OpenSSh
how-to on www.mandrakeuser.org.
It is not inappropriate for a EndUser to adopt ssh and pgp networking
hygiene. But, in that I am alone, (surprize,surprize), and O'Reilly
had my order for SSH Complete on back order, I need a little more
help.
For instance. The depslist does not equal the kpackage "unsatisfied
dependencies" squalk. SO...do I uncheck "Check Dependencies" like
a manly man, or do I let RPM finder NOT find libDCOP.so.1, for instance, or
even rpmlib, whic I must got? Why do all the Netscape Cryptos each need
all the others first? Does kpackage misidentify newer packages than
needed as being "not the version neccessary" as if they were older
versions than needed? And .... well, you get the picture.
A "little" more babying won't make Linux users as helpless as a long time
Mac user.
Yours
HAL
