--- Cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > Thanks for the heads-up on the website. > It seems that I will have my choice of applications, > whether viewing DVD's > or the Hauppage card, etc. > Do you have any suggestions for good apps to browse > the Usenet Groups > (Newsgroups)?
Pan (http:// ) > BTW, if anyone tells you that Windows XP does not > have Blue Screens of Death > (BSoD) then take it with a grain of salt. Seen it myself on my WinXP supplied laptop, which now runs RedHat 7.2. > What I am hoping for is > some website that will provide a list of > applications and then a flowchart > that states what apps require what other > apps/services/libraries. I'm not > certain of this but when I install something with > the package manager and do > a test and list the dependancies.......I can get a > list of serveral things > that it needs....but it does not tell me if there is > a specific order in > which to install them.....ie. one of the items in > the dependancy list may > require that another item must be installed as one > of its own > dependancies.......was that as hard to follow as it > was to write? <G> RPM can do a lot of things, such as display a list of dependencies, etc. See the man page or: http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/RPM-for-Unix-HOWTO-8.html RPM is not the best software package manager IMHO, but it was the first. You may want to check out and compare other software package managers such as apt-get from the Debian project. http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/apt.html http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~godoy/apt-howto John Hebert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
