--- 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

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