Hello all, I am currently in the throws of serious hair loss due to fists clenching and tugging all as a result from installing software...
Anyway, my problem that I have is that I just don't like RPM. I admit that I don't know very much about it, but I would think that anyone should be able to follow installation instructions (and yes I can), and yet things just don't seem to be a smooth as possible. One of the roadblocks seems to be cause by package dependacies and RPM not being able to identify what additional packages it needs. So, I have been considereing changing from using Mandrake (currently using 8.0) to using Debian. Does anyone have a success/horror stories from using Debian? How does their package installation utility compare to RPM? The software that I want to be using are Java (jdk1.4), jikes, sfront, lilypond, gcj/gcc, the intel compiler, and various other sound utilities. I eventually will add a Midi interface, but that has to wait. Thanks for any and all suggestion, stories, and comments, Mike
