Bill Bennett wrote:
3) if they don't, I'll have to find them. Having done so, won't
they have to be installed at wherever they should be, so that
the next attempt at rpm'ing cdrdao will be able to find them?
Don't know what distro you're running, but the last few days I've been
playing with urpmi which is the Mandrake answer to apt-get (incidently
I'll probably use it to install apt-get before long since I've just
noticed that it's in Mandrake Cooker). Anyway, I mention it because I
suspect it would fix your problem. Here's how you use it:
First of all, add cooker to your database like so:
urpmi.addmedia --wget cooker1
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/mandrake/devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
with ../base/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --wget cooker2
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/mandrake/devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2
with ../base/hdlist2.cz
(I use --wget throughout all of this because of some weirdo proxy stuff
I've got set up, it's not necessary. Likewise -v isn't necessary, it
just tells me what's going on)
Then you should just be able to do
urpmi --wget -v cdrdao-1.1.5
and (with a bit of luck) it should look up the dependencies for cdrdao
and download the appropriate packages and install them (it asks you at
each step along the way).
There is equivalent stuff for redhat. I think it's called rawhide? I'm
not sure, but it might be worth your while to install such a tool if you
do a lot of this. Alternatively, going to rpmfind.net should answer your
question, but it will require more work.
I should probably also mention that urpmi isn't perfect. For little
things like this it's fine, but I started using it because I wanted get
gcc 3.1.1 and upgrade perl while I was at it. The gcc upgrade went very
smoothly, and I'm currently running a kernel built with gcc3.1.1. The
perl install upgrade went less smoothly because I asked urpmi to upgrade
itself in the process (since it's a perl program) and it upgraded to a
broken version of urpmi which was fixed later that day, and the cooker
mailing list reliably informs me that it's been fixed yet again since
then, but that patch hasn't yet hit aarnet.
urpmi also offers a simple way to upgrade just the packages you have
installed if you want to upgrade to a newer version of your chosen
distro. I haven't really been game to do this on a machine that I need
on a day to day basis, but it might prove helpful to someone.
Sorry for the long reply, but I thought it might help people who find
themselves plagued by dependency problems.
HTH
James.
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