On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 03:36, Bret Waldow wrote:
I'm still playing with this, and I have some more questions.
I started again, with the idea of going "SuSE - only". It doesn't seem possible.
I downloaded the SuSE - Gnome updates for 7.3 (cable modems are great!), but then ran into the question, how to install them? I don't want to just "rpm -UhV *.rpm" as not all of the packages are installed now - I don't want them all.
But how do I resolve the dependencies? In fact, I've spent the day doing this by hand, focusing on Evolution and Gnome-pilot, and may almost be there. But is there some easy way I don't know about? I"ve been running "rpm -Uhv --test etc.rpm" and getting some dependencies filled from rpmfind, as the SuSE Gnome packages don't supply them (which seems pretty odd - what are they thinking of?).
Also, not all of the packages seem available from SuSE Gnome - Gnome-pilot doesn't seem to be there. It wasn't in 7.3, and I don't see it in the updates.
So, I'm wondering if I'm going about this right. Can you enlighten me about how to approach this?
Regards, Bret
I do not try to keep gnome up to date beyond what is included on the CD, but I would suspect that if you want to keep your version of gnome as current as possible that you should update all of the gnome base packages plus each gnome application that is already installed on your system and that an update is available for. I do not know of a convenient way to do this. Regarding evolution, on a box stock version of SuSE 7.3 the version of evolution that was included on the SuSE CD required that the bonobo file be updated, some had reported that Mozilla also needed to be updated from the version included on the SuSE CD. The bonobo and mozilla files at that time could be updated using the SuSE ftp site. At this time the computers that I ran on SuSE 7.3 without ximian-gnome have been upgraded to SuSE 8, so I cannot tell you exactly what files were used to keep a current version of evolution running on SuSE 7.3. I suspect that if I had needed 1 or 2 files to get evolution working, I would have gone to ftp.ximian.com and downloaded the missing file. It is curious though that the version of evolution included in SuSE 7.3 and now SuSE 8.0 both worked for me without a dependency issue regarding gnome-pilot. I do not use pilot software so I would not have missed the functionality. Is it a version of evolution from the SuSE CD or ftp that is claiming a gnome-pilot dependency? Not that I would be able to help. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? GPG/PGP ID - 0x7A1BEA01