On Sunday 01 August 2004 15:28, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 08:04, Jesse Pretorius wrote:
The install went fine, and Ximian runs fine also. The problem is that installing any new software using Yast results in numerous dependency
You can't uninstall - you have to use Red Carpet for all updates. Just point your Red Carpet at one of the public mirrors and look at Open Carpet for more repositories.
Or install Synaptic, and then update all of the ximian- packages with non-ximian packages. Which is what I did, having made the mistake of using Red-Carpet to upgrade my copy of Evolution, which lost me Glaeon, which cost me.......
...your sanity? red carpet told you exactly what it was going to do. It even told you why. You upgraded some packages, which broke dependencies, and red carpet said "hey, if you're going to upgrade these packages, then these other packages won't work any more, so I'm going to remove them as well" But you didn't read it, did you. "Mommy, it wants me to read something! Make it go away". So now "red carpet is bad" Guess what else: this wasn't because of red carpet, it was because of rpm dependencies. Any rpm tool would have done the exact same thing Guess what else: you just replaced apt with apt, since functionality in apt/synaptic is close to identical with rcd/red carpet, and the packages in red carpet come from the same source as those in synaptic, at least so far
Mike -- who forgot how bad Red-Carpet was, and did a reinstall to fix the thing
Anders -- who forgot that microsoft sometimes have a point when they blame "user error". Installing packages without verification, clicking away information dialogs without reading them - we're *this* close to virus hell PS. It's very possible to uninstall ximian's software. It's not even hard. It's a little time consuming, since package tools aren't really designed for downgrades, but it's possible. PPS. Please stop the FUD. It's not advisable to use YaST's packaging tool together with any other packaging tool, since YaST keeps insisting on reinstalling stuff from the CDs. But it's very possible to use YOU together with red carpet. apt/synaptic will have the exact same issues