I just had a try at installing the latest Ximian Gnome; about a 250Mb download, via the easy installer. All seemed to work fine, until it tried to install perl 5.0.6, when it failed because the package was already installed. That's apparently an insurmountable obstacle - the easy installer doesn't have a way to deal with this problem.
I don't normally use rpm installs, since they always seem to cause me troubles, but for something the size of KDE or Gnome, compiling everything from source is too painful, especially since I only want a few things from it. Anyway, I now have a temporary directory with 144 rpm files. So my question is, is there a utility that will work out which rpm files provide which dependencies, and work out the order to install them all? It would be less tedious than compiling from source, to work out by hand what the right install order would be, but surely this must be a common problem? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
