As for the "coherent list" and HOW to set up URPMI sources, go here: http://www.zarb.org/~nanardon/
Choose your version, select the TYPE of source and location, hit send and the command line version of adding sources is spat back at you automagically, with the proper arguments and path to the source/mirror.
SIMPLE.
BTW, there are basically 3 ways to install software in Linux, APT, RPM and from Source. All have their benefits but with modern packaging systems dependency hell is a thing of the past for the most part.
Happy hunting.
Cheers
Jason
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Hi there,
Rex Johnston wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:06, Tim Wright wrote:
I can put my libstdc++.so.5.0.3 on the web for you to download, but it comes from gcc version 3.2.3 (debian prerelease), and is 600K.
Does anyone have gcc version 3.2.2 installed, and running the same architecture as Chris (I assume i386)?
Yep.
http://sclnz.com/libstdc++.so.5.0.3
Thanks, downloaded it and it works, but now that lib asks me to provide 'libc.so.6' from glibc 2.3 (glibc 2.25 is installed ver). glibc source is a 12MB download from gnu.org, followed by cranial splitting compile/make/install BS...I'm a newbie and DON"T NEED THIS EXTRA CRAP!
Can't I just grab the binary from somewhere?! Thats all I need, NOT THE WHOLE FREAKING TWELVE MEGABYTES! :^( Rpmfind doesn't have a recent version of it...
As software develops more and more, I feel more and more as though I'll be required to update EVERYTHING on my system just so the damn dependencies don't fail. Is this common on linux systems?
If it is I'm not impressed, since all I want is to use my system, not spend all day updating it just to run software...
Linux is great, but many different methods of installing software are beginning to grate on my normally polite personality. Their appears to be few coherent installation systems for newbies that are worth the time of day. The GUI in Mandrake Control Center is great for installing, but anyone who says do 'urpmi packagename' has gotta realise that I haven't figured where all the relevant sites are to add with urpmi.addmedia...and do ya think there is a nice weblist of them somewhere? No way jose!!
libc.so.6 (the correct one, whichever it may be) will actually allow a number of things to run on this box, since quite a few installed packages require it...
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
