On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:40:28AM -0800, Mark Doucette wrote:
I agree with Richard, apt-get is a slick route and has worked like a charm for me since I've been using it. Right up until I couldn't solve this whole java2 dependency problem that is. Unfortunately, in my short time using it, I haven't found a way to force it to install something when there are unmet dependencies on the system.
I've missed the start of this thread, so apologies if this has already been suggested. Not sure about any version of apt that may come with SuSE, but certainly on the Debian version of apt you can use the --force-depend option.
Not completely true. Since apt is available for suse (7.3), there are now 2 very easy ways to get software installed. The advantage of apt is that it will install the suse version of evolution. apt will sort out all the dependend packages for you, download and install them. Only 2 commands are involved: apt-get update and apt-get install evolution.... For details about apt goto http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net, read the manual and the repository reference page (apt-rpm reps).
After installing apt you can keep your system up to date with again only 2 commands: apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
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