Laura Conrad wrote: > Hello Laura, Jan, and Han-Wen;
I really appreciate your help here. I just wonder if my system has been compromised in someway (ie beyond repair). When I tried to install 'guile' from the sources it errored out due to a conflicting definition of what looks like a function call. SO, I am stuck with guile not installing. Laura, I tried you suggestion of 'rpm -Uvh lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm' and it tells me that there is a missing package of 'libintl.so.1'. So, now there is a new wrinkle. Once again, thank you for all your help. I really have become a little more discouraged with Mandrake, and I think that I will start the investigation of Debian. Thanks, Mike > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael J McGonagle <Michael> writes: > > Michael> I still think if I am going to change/upgrade my > Michael> distribution, I will move to Debian. > > I had that idea too. I agree that the Debian package manager > probably works better than the RPM stuff (not rpm itself, but urpmi > and the graphical version). Unfortunately, no package manager can > work any better than the information given it by the package > maintainers, and Debian seems to get even less testing of its > individual packages than Mandrake does. Or at least that is the > conclusion I come to based on the fact that upgrading from the current > stable to the current testing version caused me not to be able to get > into X because the default font wasn't installed. > > Michael> Anyway, I will see if I can get all of guile installed, > Michael> and try the sources again. I think that if this problem > Michael> is caused by some part of guile that Lilypond needs, then > Michael> upgrading to 8.1 might not be necessary. > > As I said, if you need printing (and who doesn't?) I don't recommend > 8.1. > > >> Mine certainly wasn't. I did the reinstall when I stopped being able > >> to do rpm even for simple things. I think that version of urpmi or > >> the GUI that went with it was seriously bad. > > Michael> Quite frankly, I have never been able to do anything with > Michael> 'rpm' except view the contents of an archive, or possible > Michael> unpack it, but I have never been able to install any rpm > Michael> packages. > > When you say "rpm -Uvh <filename.rpm> does it not install? It should > have when your install was virgin. Unless you were missing > dependancies, which in the case of a complicated package is likely. > I think mine continued to do that, but stopped being able to do things > like: > > rpm -qa | grep guile > > But I learned about using rpm because I started using RPM based > distributions before there were wrappers that knew how to read the rpm > database. If I were starting now, I'd stick to urpmi, urpmf, and > friends. But they still have a way to go in stability -- I had to > edit the list of sources by hand when I added my 8.2 beta3 cd's, > because the Software Manager got the format wrong when I used it. > > -- > Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) > (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 > 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
