Hello people Yeah I use Mandrake of and on and RPM does suck but wait there are alternatives you can try urpmi, bit like apt-get meets rpm but also there is an apt-get package for Mandrake, and a group that have a ftp server setup for Mandrake apt-get #--read quote from newsletter.
Website News ---------------------------------------- PCLinuxOnline.com is an independent website that offers software for Mandrake Linux. PCLinuxOnline recently ported the 'Conectiva Synaptic Software Manager' to Mandrake 8.2. Additionally, they maintain an 'apt-get repository' of Mandrake 8.2 software, security updates, some RPMs from Mandrake 'unsupported', and Texstar's famous RPMs. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2808 Also, see their weekly 'RPM roundup' of Mandrake 8.2 packages. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2822 Ive used the Mandrake apt-get option to update to gcc 3.2 worked fine accept for 3 broken links (took me about 1 minute to fix that). ********************************************************************* On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:29, James Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: > > > After hearing alot of people flame the rpm system I have finally decided > > that they were right for doing so. I have had endless problems with the rpm > > system on my mandrake system. > > because what we really need is more flaming. > > > > > I was simply trying to update FreeType from 1.3 to 2.0 fso that my wine > > installation would stop complaining. so I decided to remove FreeType 1.3 > > because it wouldn't upgrade to 2.0...but to do that i had to remove a heap > > of other dependnecies like php-gd, ghostscript, libSDL, fonts-ttf, VFlib, > > XFre86-libs. > > Ok. You *don't* and *can't* upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0. They're different > libraries with different APIs. RPM was quite right in saying that you'd > break all that stuff if you uninstalled 1.3. > > This is why they have different package names. freetype and freetype2. If > they had the same package name it would let you do the upgrade, having > different package names allows you to install them in parallel. > > you'll notice that debian has a similar convention (though just looking > through "apt-cache search freetype" on our token debian computer here seems > to show a slightly counter-intuitive variant in this case) > > > > > to uninstall those I had to also uninstall a heap of their dependencies as > > well. anyway i've been at it for an hour and a half straight. I've had 5 > > errors saying "db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database > > verification failed" > > that sounds like a problem with your setup. Not rpm. > > Have you tried rpm --rebuilddb? > > See, I've managed to destroy debian package databases, the SunOS package > system (though I never learnt enough about it to know if it had a package > database or not), RPM and even systems without package managers. > > I normally manage to do this by somehow misusing the system. > > Last time I managed to do that I killed rpm rather forcefully while it was > trying to stat a broken NFS mount. The operating system stopped it, RPM had > no way to know what was happening. Anyway, rpm --rebuilddb did a reasonable > job of picking up the pieces afterwards. > > RPM is just a convenient wrapper for installing programs. It's more or less > equivalent to dpkg. It's not a complete solution for software management - > that's the job of other software which normally ships with linux distros > these days. > > > > > the rpm system is just a mess. I couldn't find any front end which could > > simplify the removal of all these dependencies...probably because there were > > so many branching off others so its all being done by hand. > > rpmdrake > > drakconf > > urpmi freetype2 > > > > > I wouldn't be supprised if my system fails to work properly afterwards. > > Either would I. Considering the amount of stuff you've uninstalled I'd > suggest you use an automatic dependancy resolving program to recover or it > could take some time. > > HTH > > James. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
